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COSMONICS 

OF 

WORLDS and FORCES 



Inception and Evolution 

OF 

STARS 



EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND INTERNAL FORMATION 

ILLUSTRATED 



Astro mony not Astro nomy 



Newtonian Theory, as Taught, Untenable 



SCIENTIFIC REVELATION 

BY 

OLIVER M. BABCOCK 

Author of "Cosmonics of the United States— a Physical Prophecy of North 

America,'' ''The Coming Force and the Doom of Steam," etc., etc • 

also Member of Advisory Council in Science and Philosophy 

at the World's Congress Auxiliary and Exclusive 

Lecturer in the Ethnological Gallery of the 

Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. 



To Imitate Nature is the Highest Aim in Art; 

To Interpret Nature, the Greatest Use of Science 



MORELL BAILEY 

PHILADELPHIA 
1901 



COSMONACROSTIC 

Q OOME to your senses and cast all aside La /rp 

O C/f trivial fiction, of nonsense or pride ; 

S @6pew out all error and swallow the truth ; 

]Vi | H>a n h°°cl must follow the fading of youth. 

O yn to the future, let past things go bye, 

N Rever sa Y failure, never say die. 

| improve every moment, conserve every hour; 

C o ar * n g f° r weak ones augments your own power. 

5 ©ecure understanding as part of your dower. 



Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1901, 

BY 

OLIVER M. BABCOCK, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 

All Rights Resetted. 



There is nothing sublimer in the history of mind 
than the lonely struggles which precede and generate 
success* Every predestined hero voill have to demon- 
strate his superior voorth by counteracting and over- 
coming the most undeserved obstructions. Long before 
an effective foothold is obtained, he %>ilt have suf- 
fered most from unexpected quarters and been more 
aroused by neglect than by timely aid* To opposition 



is due the bri lliancy of a 



lasting triumph. 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 

Cosmonacrostic and Heroism 2 

Address to the reader 5 

Proem and cosmoniscience* 6 

Preface 7-11 

Circumstances of the author's previous book; the great 
fire of 1871 and great Fair of 1893. Intervening 
period of great vicissitudes. Convinced of the unity 
and infinity of law, the present book was undertaken 
and produced. 

Exordial mottoes 12 

Cosmonic and Symbolic Tree 13-20 

Roots, body and boughs a cosmonism. Tree of knowl- 
edge — human anatomy and physiology — veins and 
arteries — geology and astronomy — Earth a star. 
Learning and Education. Labor and Capital. Phi- 
losophy and Science. Knowledge and Wisdom. 

Illustrations — Plates, etc 21-28 

Inception of existence 29-45 

Space, Matter, Time; Energy, Force Power; Definite, 
Infinite and Proximate Principles. Relative and real 
in Form and Motion. 
The carriage-wheel problem solved. 
Protectory and rotary motions. 
Cannon ball, hoop, etc. 
Earth axis of motion away from center. 
Erroneous instructions by teachers. 

The Truth About the Stars 46-122 

Sunheat and Sunlight. Physical illusions cause of men- 
tal aberrations, 47 ; influences and exfluences,48; radi- 
ant energy, human brain, thought waves, borealis, 

etc 49 

Beliefs, credulity, persecutions, errors, etc 50-55 

Energy, force, power, motion; resistance, etc 55-60 

Mass or volume and surface radiations 61-64 

Infinite space and spheres, magnetic, etc 65-67 

Surface curvature determines line of equilibrium 68-73 

Teachers of error. Herschel and heat. Sirius, unity, 
etc 74-76 

*Cos-mo-nish-ens. 

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4 CONTENTS. 

Page 
Each world a type of all worlds. 

Planets, meteors, momentum, screen, etc 77-81 

Turning force, tangential tendency, etc 82-84 

Energy inherent and all action positive 84-90 

Plant polarity, sap circulation, etc 90-91 

Converging or diverging rays and transmission 91-95 

Centrifugal, weight, columns of liquid, etc 95-99 

Tides: Errors of belief and corrections 100-105 

Moon an unborn planet. Future changes 106-109 

Earth. Interior lava sea between an outer and an 
inner crust. Great central cavity and life within. 
Continuous day and arborescent beauty. Polar vents 
and orifices. Earthquakes and volcanoes only in 

outer crust. Wonderful world 110-122 

Alphabetacrostic 123 

COSMONOGRAPHS. 

Great underlying and eternal principles 124-131 

Eighty-five important basic ideas. 

PHYSICAL PROPHECY. 
Prospectus, contents, letters, etc 132-140 



Comprehensive, Demonstrative, Illustrative, Constructive 

COSMONICS 

Considers All Causes, Estimates All Effects, 

Applies to All Affairs and Implies 

Apprehension, Cause, Law, Order, Unity, Proof, Application 

AND 

Physical Prophecy, 

i e. 
Prediction founded on material conditions, physical operations, 
known facts, observed phenomena, and all forces (including 
formative influences on character and hence on community and 
civilization); a complete unity in establishing conclusions con- 
cerning human welfare now and hereafter. 



READER. 



This book is aimed at errors in schools of learning 
and popular thought (or lack of thought) on subjects 
considered scientific. If the views advanced react on 
the writer he will be amply rewarded in the discovery of 
his mistakes. He does not claim to be infallible. 

The comprehensive title "Cosmonics" implies appre- 
hension, cause, law, order, unity, proof, demonstration 
and illustration. It is derived from the word cosmos; 
meaning universe — unity in diversity, diversity in unity 
or all in one — uniformity in Law. 

The suggestive conceptions or idealisms employed 
(instead of assertive conclusions) are an appeal to all 
for answers which may lead in the direction of some 
clew to realities in place of existing superstitions and 
imaginations in science and religion. 

The object of this work is to inculcate principles 
rather than to teach facts. Few principles comprehend 
all facts. Learn the few and know the all. In this 
age of easy methods, cheap fares, direct roads and quick 
time; education should also advance. 

Inclination; whether inspiration or only aspiration, 
impels to this undertaking from which it would be cow- 
ardice to shrink. That it opposes professional teach- 
ings or popular beliefs is not an excuse for withholding 
conscientious views of cosmonic truth. 

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PROEM. 

Truth is the fountain of all good. 
Error is the source of every sin. 



COSMONISCIENCE, 

Ignorance is absence of knowledge, 

As darkness is absence of light. 
Education comes after the college, 

As daytime is born of the night. 

In darkness the roots have been growing; 

But the fruits w r hich are nearer the sun, 
Have developed long after the sowing, 

Or blossoms from buds had begun. 

Between them the trunk and the timber, 
Made strong by the storms and their strife ; 

Now no longer a sapling that's limber, 
Is a tree that's mature in its life. 

Delve not in dark earth for the sources, 
Nor seek in the past for the truth ; 

In modern research find the forces 
Of life which is yet in its youth. 

The seed and the sapling are vanished; 

The tree's in full vigor and strength; 
Let the errors of ages be banished; 

Beach aloft, for the truth grows, at length. 

Then waste not your time teaching terrors; 

For wisdom, entreat not the past. 
The ages are pregnant with errors; 

And time's noblest fruitage is last. 

* Cos-mo-nish-ence. 



PREFACE. 



The great Chicago fire occurred on October 9th, 1871. 
Many persons expressed the belief that the ruins would 
remain instead of giving place to a rebuilt city. 

The author of this work was a resident of Chicago, 
although absent at the time of the conflagration. He 
made the calamity an occasion for some lectures in 
which the future of our country was discussed. An- 
other city employed him to express his views on paper 
with reference to their bearings on that place, so that 
the public might be informed of its admirable situation 
and local advantages for enterprise and investment. 

While preparing this booklet many ideas not appli- 
cable to that locality came into the writer's mind. 
Therefore, he determined on writing a work embracing 
the entire situation, and free from prejudice, partial- 
ity, preference or the limitations of local interest ; but 
which would furnish a substantial basis for correct 
estimates of our country, or any part of it, in all rela- 
tions of sections, states, cities or localities, and lines of 
traffic and intercourse each to any and all to every 
portion of the globe. 

Travel, research and study, extending over twenty- 
one years, 1872 to 1893, eventuated in the production 
of such a volume, illustrated with suitable maps, 
original and unique, prepared especially for the pur- 
pose. These maps (or charts) enlarged, formed an 
exhibit at the Columbian Exposition where the books 
found a ready and extensive sale. 

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8 PREFACE. 

Between 1872 and 1893 the center of its preparation 
was in Philadelphia. There the plates w r ere made and 
sent to Chicago where the conception had taken place 
twenty-one years and nine months before. 

The circumstances of conception, and locality of 
birth and adolescence, together with vicissitudes of 
growth and advent, is a history of determination, perse- 
verance, association and opposition most remarkable, 
culminating in a burial for many weeks amid ruins 
caused by an explosion of natural gas at a leading 
publishing house in Chicago. 

This caused a delay of two months, which the author 
employed in perfecting an artistic design for a frontis- 
piece — a symbol of empire — composed of elements in 
the aspects of Nature, which indicate our career and 
our destiny as a country, a people and a nation. 

This beautiful emblem, with its epic explanation, is 
often declared as alone worth the cost of the book. 

This is one of many proofs that seeming disasters in 
life are often the fertile soils from which come the 
finest fruits. This book is a child of calamities and a 
climax of effort. 

Its conception in the greatest fire of all history, its 
birth and evolution in the atmosphere where the 
identity of lightning and electricity were discovered, its 
culmination in a calamity in the city of its inception, 
and its advent at the gigantic Exposition held in honor 
of a discovery, the subject of which the work essays to 
expound — the natural constitution of our country, and 
the course of empire, in its march of ages, to its final 
camp on this continent — is an incident of history 



PREFACE. 9 

which tallies with other events of these extraordinary 
times. 

Both the great Fire and the great Fair were eosmonic 
in character and as this work had its inception at the 
former and its maturity at the latter, with an inter- 
vening period of discovery, invention and authorship 
full of most remarkable vicissitudes, untold as yet, 
concerning a subject of great notoriety and accom- 
panied by unequaled associations in the progress of art, 
science and philosophy, both local and extensive, while 
its own multifarious theme with infinitude of applica- 
tions diversely treated, forms a composite volume of 
entertaining educational illustrated scientific business 
literature of unparalleled worth as a guide for enter- 
prise, investment and speculation; comprehending his- 
tory, geography, philosophy and prophecy in one sub- 
lime subject; it is both cosmic and monistic; calling 
for the only word expressive of inclusiveness, efficiency 
and excellence for its leading title; while its compre- 
hensive sweep of all the elements entering as factors into 
our civilization as a united commonwealth, defines the 
aim of its production as applying to this country. Hence 
the title word cosmootcs and the title phrase: 

COSMONTCS OF THE UNITED STATES. 

As it contemplates our future on a material basis and 
purely physical plane, it is practically a Physical 
Prophecy. 

(See endorsements at the end of this book.) 
Principles are involved in this subject which are 
coexistent and coextensive throughout all known 
creation, and inferentially through the unknown; 



10 PREFACE. 

and as they are augmentive, opening into the realms 
of infinity, the author believes it his duty and his prerog- 
ative to continue his explanations to show that all prin- 
ciples are of universal application and, if the study of 
them be pursued, they lead into deep recesses of hidden 
truths of great importance to mankind in both scientific 
and religious investigations. 

This thought has become a conviction which con- 
stantly deepens and widens the more it is contemplated ; 
and as from a city to the country, the continent and the 
world, the subject magnified into an attack on other 
worlds; it continues to grow until it appears to be 
boundless in reach and ramifications. 

Hence this production which, like its predecessor, 
and all true expressions, first opens the door to a limit- 
less view of the boundless realm of infinite existence. 
It surveys more than any instrument of mechanical 
combination of metals and of glass. Its logic is a lens 
of greater power and accuracy than any artificial con- 
trivance, and its philosophy affords a wider sweep of the 
universe. 

"Where finds philosophy her eagle eye with which she 
gr.zes at yon burning disk undazzled?" 

Its importance, therefore, cannot be magnified by any 
power of words, force of thought or power of will. It 
brings remotest orbs into clearer view than the most 
expensive telescopes. 

This work is an innovation, and may be ineonoclastic. 
It is in line with evolution and will open wider the 
door of truth as research clears away the rubbish of our 



PREFACE. 11 

schools and the dawn develops into a brighter effulgence 
illuminating the new century of discovery, dispensation 
and intelligence, while cosmonic science leads us into 
an ultimate unity of all truth in the taproot of compre- 
hensive knowledge. — Cosmonisciexce. 

What is herein taught should be criticized b} T all read- 
ers. The author will be thankful for any exposition of 
his errors. He regards as his friends those who kindly 
tell him of his faults. This is not a peculiar trait. It 
is common to all who love the truth. 

It should be understood that as the previous work 
was without prejudice or bias towards any locality; so 
this book is prepared regardless of race, class, creed, 
station or sex. The most obstinate resistance is expected 
from intrenched opponents who are in pay-stations and 
will try to "hold the fort." 

The freest man is he who is a slave to truth. 
The freest woman is she who is a slave to virtue. 

Truth and virtue are inseparable and interchangeable 
in all essentials — in elements, qualities and character- 
istics. It follows, therefore, that what can be said of 
either applies equally to both, and also to the subjects 
they qualify, as man or woman; and inferentially that 
in these there is no difference as to rights and privileges 
in the constitution of nature. 



EXORDIAL MOTTOES. 



"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge/' 

"He that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him 
it is sin." 

Every acceptance of truth is the opening of another 
door to salvation. 

The acceptance of any truth is a step in the direction 
of knowledge embracing all truth. 

The only way the great problem of the universe can 
ever be scientifically solved is by studying and arriving 
at right conclusions regarding the principal element in 
creation, called force. 

As the physical is an expression of the spiritual in 
man, the microcosm; so it must be in the macrocosm, 
the aggregate existence. Any solution, therefore, of the 
physical problems, is the true course by which to arrive 
at conclusions concerning the higher spheres of entity. 

The objects of this work are to reject error and 
receive truth, whereby we turn from evil and embrace 
good for our safety and the salvation of mankind. 

"If I seem, with undue enthusiasm, to magnify the 
principle at stake, the exaggeration — like extreme ampli- 
fication of the moon's disc when near the horizon — must 
be charged to that almost necessary aberration of light 
which distorts every new idea while it is yet climbing to 
its zenith." 

He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, and all 
beside are slaves. 

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THAT COSMONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 



A tree is a type of all growth in organized life and a 
text for discourse on any number of themes in the realm 
of thought. It is also a symbol of involution and evolu- 
tion in the domain of knowledge. The trunk and the 
tap-root are distinct portions growing in opposite direc- 
tions — one upward and the other downward — yet they 
are so intimately connected, interblended and related, 
that no line of demarkation or point of separation 
appears. All the branches, below or above ground, are 
offshoots from the same central or main body of the 
tree. Boots and boughs are alike as essential to the life 
of the trunk or main stalk, as they are to the existence 
of each other. From tiniest root to topmost bough, 
every" spray has its representative at the opposite extrem- 
ity, connected by a continuous fibre through the great 
bundle of such fibres — the body of the tree. All are in 
one, one is in all and the whole is required for a tree — 
body, boughs and roots. Hence it is a cosmonism. 

Knowledge is a tree composed of body and many 
branches, the great center of which is truth. This is the 
tap-root and center shaft, or main stalk of the entire 
growth. Any branch followed in the direction of the 
mass, leads to conjunctions with other branches, uniting 
in larger ones until all blend into the main body of 
comprehensive truth. 

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14 THAT COSMONIC AXD SYMBOLIC TREE. 

Truth is the upright and ultimate, the center of all 
knowledge. Truth is the finality of the law and the law 
is one, with many branches which we may call facts, all 
of which agree and sustain the law. All facts coincide 
and lead to a common goal. A wise man will go in the 
direction of convergence w T here facts accumulate. The 
unwise man shows his weakness by claiming to come 
from the focus of knowledge. By following him, the 
wrong direction will soon appear in the more and more 
slender footing on which he tries to keep his balance 
until he reaches his limit and falls. 

In our search for truth we first come into contact with 
facts w T hich w r e trace in the direction of their increase, 
meeting with associate facts which converge toward the 
same source or tap-root where all seekers will ultimately 
arrive and in mutual congratulations discover that each 
is in touch with central truth, and hence in touch with 
each other. 

The experiences of all for the information of each, 
will result from the world of thought and investigation ; 
from every direction approaching a common center 
where all branches blend into a harmonious unity. 

As in a tree of nature, so in the tree of knowledge; 
every branch is continuous and entire throughout its 
most intricate ramifications and intimate associations 
among its own or associate branches. 

Veins and arteries in the human anatomy are distinct, 
although continuous and coterminous at their extremi- 
ties; and all merging into or emerging from the heart. 
As a tree has two systems of branches — roots and 
boughs ; so the channels of blood in the animal economy 



THAT COSMONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. lo 

have two departments of circulation ; one to the extremi- 
ties^ the other to the lungs. So also the system of nerves 
is double and in two departments : from cervix to brain 
above and body below. Each tiniest nerve is continuous 
through ganglion, column and congeries to its counter- 
terminus at the opposite extremity. 

Physiology and anatomy are separate studies and 
opposite in character; one being functional and the 
other organic ; yet they are essentially one in the animal 
economy and must be studied in connection. 

Geology and astronomy are also, in a sense, opposite 
studies; but, to be studied intelligently, they must be 
in conjunction. One is of the earth below and the other 
is of the stars above. But all are globes; all are 
spheres ; 

"All are parts of one stupendous whole." 
Earth is one of the stars as truly as is Mars or Venus. 
So a study of the earth is, to some extent, a study of 
the stars. Earth is more of a star than is the moon, 
the study of which also is a part of astronomy. 

Learning and education, though interblended, are 
opposite qualifications, though many suppose them to 
be the same ; but they cannot be pursued separately. One 
conduces to the other. Learning is the taking in or 
inducing of thoughts from others; while education is 
the educing, drawing out or evolving of our own 
thoughts and a developing within ourselves of the power 
to think. Learning is a process of involution and edu- 
cating is a process of evolution. Learning is the most 
extensive, but education is the most important as a 
primary possession. Either will follow as the other is 



16 THAT C0SM0XIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 

pursued. Learning influences character while education 
develops it. 

They co-operate as essentially as the roots and limbs 
of any tree. In studying to educate, we learn, and in 
the pursuit of learning we draw out our energies into 
power, developing our ability to think. That is educa- 
tion which enables us to emit our own light as a sun; 
while teaching what we have only learned, is a reflect- 
ing process whereby we perform the functions of a moon 
giving out borrowed light. • Hence our teachers are 
bright according to their education rather than their 
learning. Besides, the educated — the thinking — man 
absorbs, assimilates, transmits and evolves thoughts 
from other sources with a radiance all his own; while 
the merely learned man utters what he remembers with- 
out recasting to his own pattern and hence is not a 
skillful teacher. He may be a man of talent but not a 
genius; illuminated rather than self-luminous. Talent 
only reflects or transmits. A genius is a generator; 
illustrious in proportion as he is original. 

The two elements of civilization called labor and 
capital are often antagonistic. Their antagonisms may 
be likened unto a dispute between the roots and the 
boughs as to which is the tree. They are interdependent 
and equally essential in the production of commodities 
which are the fruits of both in co-operation. Wealth 
is the body of the tree nourished by the circulation 
between them. The freer the circulation between 
them in the exchange of opposite functions the 
greater the tree and the more abundant its fruits. The 
sap of the tree is its circulating medium. On the free- 






THAT COSMONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 17 

dom of circulation depends the character of growth j 
whether vigorous or stunted. Stint or obstruct the sap 
and yon stunt or dwarf the tree. Sever the stalk and 
the top withers; but the roots will send forth new 
sprouts to grow and bear fruit in place of that portion 
gone into decay. Labor is the life and roots of the tree. 
It will survive. 

Money is the sap of civilization. The more freely it 
circulates, the more healthy, uniform and beautiful the 
tree; and the finer its fruits. The more freely labor 
and capital interchange their functions the better for 
each and the less in amount is required of the circulat- 
ing medium. This, however, should always be in pro- 
portion to the size of the tree, or magnitude of opera- 
tions carried on. There should always be enough, and 
the more active the better. Of quantity there may be an 
excess. 

Elements of earth and air in which trees grow are 
important factors in the product. Unfavorable condi- 
tions cause a forest of inferior timber ; perhaps gnarled, 
crooked, or scrubby; making unsightly what otherwise 
would be a lovely landscape. 

Capital and labor being interlaced and inseparable, 
they are counterparts, and essential to the existence of 
each other and of enlightened communities. Without 
either, wealth would not accumulate; our body politic 
would cease to exist; social organization must perish; 
the tree of liberty could not survive and natural — self — 
government could no longer stand. Self government is 
a philosophy. When perfected it will be a science. 



18 THAT COSMONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 



PHILOSOPHY AXD SCIENCE. 

Philosophy and science are inseparable from each 
other or from any branch of either. Philosophy is the 
root and science is the top of the tree. Art is the trunk, 
which in every form feeds on both for nourishment, 
while it connects and sustains them as their medium 
of exchange and intercourse. Art is comprehensive. It 
embraces and includes both of the others, forming the 
trinity of knowledge. Form, proportion, color, and 
every other factor in art or subject of study, as mathe- 
matics, physics, pneumatics, chromatics, optics, music, 
or logic etc., are philosophic and scientific as artistic 
pursuits, or studies in conclusive, proved, or exact prin- 
ciples. 

Philosophy may aptly be considered the foundation, 
and science the superstructure, with art as the architect 
in the temple of truth, or wisdom which is its equiva- 
lent. 

Philosophy is experimental. It is the love of — induc- 
ing the search after — wisdom. In general usage it 
means the knowledge of phenomena as explained by and 
resolved into causes and reasons, powers and laws. 

Science is actual knowledge. It is established. It is 
past the experimental stage. It is truth ascertained; or, 
systematized and formulated facts with reference to the 
discovery of laws. It is knowledge classified and made 
available in work, life, or search for truth. 

Truth and facts differ in this: All facts are true, 
yet not all truth is fact. Truth is infinite. Fact is 



THAT COSMONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 19 

finite. All facts have occurred, or come to pass. Much 
of truth has not yet come to pass, in our knowledge. 
Whatever may occur is already true. It can not be a 
fact until after it shall have occurred. Truth forever is. 
Facts take place at points of time. 

Knowledge and wisdom are closely related, but they 
widely differ in true meaning. Wisdom is the right use 
of knowledge, which cannot be used until possessed. 
Wisdom may also be exercised without knowledge — 
from supposition or conjecture. Knowledge may also 
be wisely or unwisely used. Discriminations of this 
character are important in the study of Nature every- 
where. Especially important are they in the wonderful 
and entertaining truths contained in the pages which 
follow this preface. These embody many thoughts which 
are new, and reverse many theories which are old and 
considered scientific or established. They treat of mat- 
ters philosophic and scientific and in a manner artistic ; 
embracing many phases of knowledge wisely applied, 
as indicated by the generic or collective term ''Cosmos/' 
and suggesting a name, expressive of all subjects, their 
parts and applications, their demonstrations and illus- 
trations for information, instruction and use of whatever 
kind by any means employed. 

A term so comprehensive condensed into a single word 
would naturally be Cosmonics. "Cos" meaning unknown 
quantity and "mon" meaning one or unity in origin, 
operation or calculation, and embracing past, present 
and future, touching every interest and all evidence 
from which conclusions can be drawn. Each conclusion 
must be sustained by every circumstance in order to be 



20 THAT COLONIC AND SYMBOLIC TREE. 

final and established. The termination "ics" indicates 
appertaining or belonging to and is the demonstrative 
or scientific feature of the term or word. 



Astronomy signifies classification of the stars. It 
includes also measurements of size, distance and rate of 
motion. 

Astromony indicates unity of laws governing their 
growth and movements without reference to dimensions 
or distances. 

Astronomies is the study of exactitudes. 

Astromonics is the study of principles. 

Both are scientific and philosophic, but the former 
may be more a science while the latter is more a phil- 
osophy. Both, and all their branches, are compre- 
hended in COSMONICS, 

"Xew occasions teach new duties; 

Time makes ancient good uncouth ; 
They must onward still, and upward, 

Who would keep abreast of truth/' 




Copyrighted 1901 by O. M. Babcock. 

PLATE I. 

UNCREATED UNIVERSAL AND ETERNAL PRINCIPLES. 

1— Circles or curves expanded approach straight lines. 

2 — 3, 1415 ETC., ratio of any circle to its diameter. 

3 — Circle or disk, and its diameter illustrated. 

4 — Center-piece; squares on sides of a triangle 

5 — Left hand; six circles around one of same size. 

6 — Right hand; three balls and any triangular area. 

7 — Three forms; rays perpendicular to surfaces. 








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Showing magnetic radiation from surface ; also polar vent of inte- 
rior magnetism causing northern light ; also moon's polar vent. 

Copyrighted 1901 by O. M. Babcock. 








FIG.B jSlfl 

Showing meeting of Sun rays and earth rays to be near the earth; 
also lava beds of both spheres Volcanoes not illustrated in 
this figure. I Sun- 2 Earth. 3, 4, 5, rays from straight and 
curved surfaces. 



Copyrighted 1901 by O. M. Eafccpcfc. 



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Earth bisected through equator; showing exterior and Interior of 
earth crusts with intervening lava bed; also exterior and interi- 
or magnetic rays and exterior volcanoes. No Internal eruptions. 

Copyrighted 1901 by O. M. Babcock. 




Earth bisected longitudinally through poles. External and internal 
magnetic rays from outer and inner crusts; also Intervening 
lava bed. 

Copyrighted 1901 by O. M. Babcock. 



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Near view of Earth seen from direction of Polaris: Shows polar 
opening — North Pole — with Sun in summer. Similar appear- 
ance near South Polo 



Copyrighted 3901 by 0. M. Babcock. 




Copyrighted 1901 by 0. M. Babcocfc. 

PLATE 7. 

COMPAEATIVE SIZE AND CURVATURE OF EARTH AND SUN. SHOWING 

DIVERGENCE AND PARALLELISM EROM SURFACES; ALSO TWO SIDE 

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SAME PRINCIPLE. SUN CURVE, TOP; EAETH ROT- 

TOM. ' 

Right hand, expansion from both centers and surfaces 
Left hand, expansion from differential surfaces only! 



CIVIC CROSS. 




EMBLEM OF EMPIRE. 

A SYMBOL AND SIGNAL OF 

CIVILIZATION 

Developed in concealment from remote antiquity and being 
carried forward with undeviating unity of purpose to culminate on 
this continent where, from an eminence hitherto unreached, the 
readers of 

£o$monic$ of the United States 

survey a scene of coming grandeur, surpassing in reality anything 
recorded in the shadowy realms of romance. This unique figure 
has a wonderful significance entirely apart from any religion. 

Many persons, however, attribute its mysterious production to 
inspiration and regard it as having a marvelous meaning beyond 
the intention of its author. Its features are founded in the aspects 
of Nature and indicate our political, commercial and industrial order 
in development. It is portrayed in beautiful colors and fully ex- 
plained in Cosmonics of U. S. See adv't in back part of this book. 



Cosmonics of Worlds and Forces. 



INCEPTION OF EXISTENCE. 

SPACE is the prime essential of existence. Anything 
or any idea of a thing independent of or apart from 
space is impossible. This positive truth is also a primary 
concept. Mind cannot comprehend any condition or 
operation aside from space. Unlimited space is, prop- 
erly, Immensity. Neither height nor depth nor direc- 
tion pertain or can apply to space as a whole. They 
are only relative to some locality or object. Uncreated, 
infinite, immovable and eternal ; Space, although a non- 
entity in concept, is the only reality, save one, which 
the mind or soul can imagine as primary, persistent, 
unchangeable and free. 

UNITY — absolute oneness — indivisible wholeness 
without number, dimension, degree or situation; with- 
out kind, variety or adjacency: precludes all possibility 
of description or explanation of space. One is the only 
perfect number. 

TIME is the comprehensive, unlimited and illimitable 
concomitant and complement of space. It is compre- 
hensive and incomprehensible duration. Beginning or 
ending is not possible, except with reference to periods 

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30 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

or events; and then only in relation to material objects. 
From everlasting to everlasting — no beginning to no 
ending — one eternal, ever present now is all that can 
be perceived of that measureless and essential condition 
of all existence — time. Its proper name is Eternity. 

MATTER is the cohered succeedent of space ; coinci- 
dent with and coefficient of time ; and, although coexis- 
tent in its essential elements, is the direct opposite of 
space, in all perceivable properties. It is possible to 
conceive of space without matter; but we cannot enter- 
tain an idea of matter aside from space; and we cannot 
conceive of either without that other element essential 
to all existence — time. These three constitute the trin- 
ity of every known possibility. 

Omnipresence inheres in space; perpetuity in time; 
and limitation in matter. 

Space, being omnipresent, cannot be moved, as there 
is no whither for it to go. Matter, being limited, is 
movable in space. Time is essential to all changes of 
matter in space. 

Space and Matter are opposite requirements, and 
extreme in all the potencies of their creative and 
governing functions ; while Time seems to be the inter- 
mediate essential, and forever the exact and exacting 
accountant and observer of all that occurs — the ever 
just recorder — the discretive element of existence! 

Space and Matter possess the passions, or active 
principles, from which life and motion emanate. Each 
possesses, or is possessed by, a passion for the other; 
this appears to be a condition to which all passional 
affinities are adjusted. Together they express the laws 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORGES. 31 

under which all such affinities are executed or mani- 
fested. 

Space never moves but is always ready to receive. 
Matter always moves towards least occupied space, or in 
the direction of least resistance; although this fact is 
not always plain to human observation. Figuratively, 
the arms of space are always open and matter forever 
seeks their embrace.* 

Space is the matine or negative primal principle, 
and matter is the maline or positive primal principle in 
all action. Emotions and operations always conform 
to the law governing space and matter in their apparent 
fondness for each other. Opposites are always embrac- 
ing to bring forth newness, which gradually assumes 
one or the other form or quality, only to again embrace 
its opposite and complete the process as before. 

Space, as a word, is used variously in a limited or 
unlimited sense. Ordinarily it implies limit or meas- 
ure of expanse or extension. It is here employed as the., 
best name for our idea of unlimited extent of room in 
which matter in all its forms may move or exist. 

Time is here used as the best word by which to desig- 
nate endless duration ; although in strict application, or 
technically, time is only a measured part of duration or 
eternity. 

* The genitive passion between space and matter cannot 
be understood, much less explained, at least by any phrase- 
ology now in vogue ; and if ever accomplished, a vocabulary 
must either grow or be invented for the purpose. 

It is not worth while to write more than will be read, and 
any attempt to explain what is beyond the reach of the 
rational, is in vain. 



32 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

IMMENSITY and INFINITY are words which 
apply respectively to space and time, where endlessness 
or unlimitedness is to be expressed. Both terms, how- 
ever, may be tentatively used in reference to matter. 

Space being motionless and immovable while mat- 
ter is both movable and motile, all motion is manifested 
by matter. A condition of motion inheres in space, but 
without any manifestation by it. 

Of space, therefore, we may say that its attributes are 
omnipresence and oneness ; its passion is electrical recep- 
tivity, and its characteristics are persistency, perma- 
nency, comprehension and composure; while phenom- 
enally it is capacious, universal, equilibrius, dark and 
cold. 

Of matter it may be said that its properties are limi- 
tation and motion; its passion is magnetism and fer- 
vency with characteristics of consistency, divisibility, 
velocity and vibration. Its phenomena are occupancy, 
distribution, position, solidity, fluidity, heat and color. 
Other terms might be added but these will suffice.* 

These three prime essentials, Time, Space and Mat- 
ter, comprise all there is on the material plane. 
Any other plane it is not our purpose here to discuss. 
A super-material substance or essence we may not admit 

* Many questions will occur to the reader, but it should be 
borne in mind that we are dealing with immensity, infinity 
and eternity, concerning which, if all were understood, the 
life of one person would not be sufficient to either write or 
otherwise express it. 

Orderly statement is better than elaborate argument; and 
a discussion of questions unanswerable would be equally 
unprofitable, in view of the vast number possible of solution 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 33 

or deny, but we may lay foundations on which to build 
inferences and rest theories concerning them. We are 
in the domain of the physical ; and whether or not any 
phenomena be attributable to super-physical causes, the 
supernatural is not here admitted. It may be considered 
later; but the physical in its various requirements, 
entities and operations needs no supersensuous plane for 
its most extensive elaboration. 

At our present stage of knowledge it is not possible 
to determine whether there is any form or substance 
above the material, for this exists in such a high degree 
of tenuity, or sublimation, that it seems to supply all 
the conditions and answer all the requirements of the 
spiritual state. Whether matter be concreted spirit or 
spirit be sublimated matter, is unprofitable to discuss 
in this connection; it being non-essential and impossi- 
ble to determine. 

If what we have discovered be a law governing all 
known matter, the same law must prevail in the unseen 
and unknown. A missing link between the known mate- 
rial and the unknown so-called spiritual may yet be 
ascertained. 

Every truth is universal in application and cannot 
conflict with any other truth; for all truths are in har- 
mony. Errors are ever at variance with truths and, 

and equally important, which must be omitted in a work of 
this magnitude. 

Ideas are born naked; often long before they are clothed 
or carried by words, or a market is found for their profit- 
able exchange. In the absence of appropriate vehicles for 
their conveyance or expression we must use what can be 
temporarily employed for the purpose. 



34 C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

besides, are always quarreling among themselves. Every 
theory, therefore, which is in harmony with any particu- 
lar truth, must be supported by all truth, and is neces- 
sarily true. 

Analogy, therefore, is reliable only when in harmony 
with truths already known — which right observation 
and experience maintain. Without these any safe 
analogy cannot be drawn. What we know of conditions 
under which objects exist and operations occur, affords 
a substantial basis for conclusions concerning things 
beyond the domain of sense. (Eom. 1, 20.) 

A straight line being the shortest distance between 
any two points now and here, must be so always and 
everywhere. A truth on earth must be a truth on every 
other sphere. Length, breadth and thickness being the 
dimensions of matter on one planet, must be so on every 
other. The smallest number of straight lines that can 
bound an area is three, forming a triangle; and the 
fewest number of supports that are self-sustaining is 
three, as in the tripod. Three balls, each touching the 
other two, will always give the same form however they 
may be shifted. These typical truths together with 
what has been said of space, matter, time, etc., suggest 
the supposition that three is the basic number and that 
the triple order prevails throughout Xature; as in the 
human brain we have the animal, the mental and the 
moral ; or the social, intellectual and ethical. The infer- 
ence, therefore, is rational that all material existence 
is founded on the trinal principle and that all abstract 
truth is in correspondence therewith. (See Plate 1.) 

Dimension, form and number are concepts aside from 



C0SM0XICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 35 

any idea of space or matter ; and yet it is impossible to 
perceive their existence apart from space, or their expres- 
sion without the employment of matter. The three are 
separate, abstract and eternal principles; each infinite 
in variety, distinct in elements, exact and accurate in 
every quality of its existence, relation and manifesta- 
tion — limited, like matter on which its expression 
depends, yet infinite in all the relations it bears to space ; 
while the relations they all bear to both are approximate ; 
that is, these relations are definite, infinite or approxi- 
mate and so partake of the nature of space or matter 
according to these relations. 

The foregoing statements or assertions will be made 
clear by a few illustrations. 

In relation to space a straight line is indefinite and 
infinite in its only dimension — length. In relation to 
matter and sense it is definite and finite ; for it is then 
manifested and not imaginary. A definite (or finite) 
line has two ends or points of termination. A line 
with only one terminus is partly definite and partly 
infinite. It may then be considered approximate. As 
a line cannot extend beyond space it must be compre- 
hended in space. Imagine an infinite straight line, i. e., 
having no end; then suppose it severed at some point, 
creating two ends. In such a case each imaginary line 
has only one end and is neither definite nor infinite as a 
whole, but it approximates both. 

Again: the greater a circle or curve the more it 
approaches a straight line (Plate 1) ; yet, though infi- 
nitely enlarged it will not become straight. The smaller 
a ring or circle the nearer it approaches a point; yet 



36 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

while it remains a circle it cannot become a point ; for 
when contracted to a point it is no longer a ring. The 
ring or circle then, although a symbol of eternity, may 
be regarded as an approximate ranging anywhere be- 
tween the definite and the infinite — between a straight 
line and a point. 

"Scientifically/' the circle is often said to be an "infi- 
nite angle" or a "constant angle." The degree of the 
angle having never been given, the question is open for 
any mechanic or mathematician to answer. The larger 
the circle the more obtuse the angle, while the smaller 
the circle the more acute the angle. Therefore, when 
may the. circle be said to approach the straight line, and 
when approach the point ? When approach the infinite 
and when the finite ? Evidently when it passes the half- 
way position between the line and the point. 

When the circle is a -±5° curve it is the midway arc. 
When more than this it may be considered as approach- 
ing the infinite: when less, the finite: or, when more, 
approaching the line ; when less, the point. The proxi- 
mate principle may be represented by a diagonal, mid- 
way between the horizontal and its perpendicular. When 
a 45° circle shall be defined, the medium between the 
finite and the infinite will have been established. 

Another illustration of the approximate is plainly 
given in the ratio of a circumference to its diameter. 
Both may be exact in separate measurements, yet the 
ratio or the exact proportion between them cannot be 
found. The same figures express the approximate ratio 
of all circles of every size. As the decimal is extended 
the ratio is approximated but exactness is not reached 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 37 

by infinite extension. This is an expressive symbol of 
infinite expansion of the human intellect without reach- 
ing its limit or comprehending infinity. The unsolved 
problem of squaring a circle is another illustration of 
infinite principles. 

In motion also, as well as in dimension and form, 
the principle is illustrated. For several years contro- 
versies have been carried on in the papers, concerning 
the difference of motion between the top and the bottom 
of a carriage wheel. Many and widely extended com- 
ments, called arguments, have been advanced on this 
very simple subject. The question might as well be 
asked: How much faster does a man move by walking 
than by standing ? Or, again and variantly : What is the 
ratio of difference in the rate of movements of two men, 
one of whom is moving at the rate of six miles, and the 
other at only three miles an hour, and a third man who 
is not moving? 

There cannot be a ratio of movement between two 
bodies when only one moves. If both move at the same 
rate there is no ratio. Any argument about a ratio in 
either case, is useless. When both move at differentiated 
speed there is a ratio. The nearer to the same speed 
they move, the less the ratio and the more the difference 
the greater the ratio. In the former the finite is 
approached and in the latter the infinite. One may 
represent the point, the other the line, approximately. 

In like manner is the carriage wheel problem solved. 
The bottom of the wheel, being stationary, represents 
the standing man, while the top of the wheel represents 
the rapid mover, and the hub represents the slower. 



38 COSMONICS OF WORLDS VXD FORCES. 

The bottom of the wheel — the part on the ground — may 

represent a point while the top represents — or is repre- 
sented by — a straight line. 

For all purposes of estimating, the bottom of the 
wheel must be regarded as motionless, and therefore 
without any ratio of motion between it and the top or 
any portion of the wheel above the- bottom. Whether 
the wheel move swift or slow, the ratio is between mor- 
ing parts only. The swifter the carriage moves the 
greater the ratio between the moving parts of its wheels 
and the slower it moves the less this ratio ; and the 
farther apart any two vertical portions of a moving 
wheel, the greater the ratio at any given speed. The 
swifter it moves the more nearly this ratio approaches 
the infinite, and the slower the motion the more nearly 
it approaches the finite. 

But neither the infinite nor the finite is attainable by 
either the swiftest or the slowest motion. They can be 
only approximated, and while there is motion. Even 
were the wheel a thousand years in moving an inch the 
finite of ratio is not reached. This conveys a faint idea 
of the infinitely proximate in motion, as well as in 
dimension and form, without reaching either the finite 
or the infinite. 

Were the carriage stationary and a wheel resting on 
its axle instead of on the ground, then when turning on 
the center, all sides of the wheel would move equally ; 
but w r hen resting on the ground, the bottom, at point of 
contact, becomes the axis of motion and itself is prac- 
ticallv motionless. Hence there can be no ratio between 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AXD FOECES. 39 

it and any elevated portion of the wheel as far as 
motion is concerned. 

Again, if one wheel be lifted from the ground and 
supported by the axle, even though the vehicle be moved 
rapidly forward on three wheels, the bottom of the wheel, 
if turning, might be moving backward while the top 
of the wheel would be moving forward, and vice versa ; 
and with a ratio of opposition between real and relative 
motion in proportion to the speed of rotation. But if 
the wheel rotate very slowly, while the entire vehicle 
moves rapidly forward, the top of the wheel (or even the 
bottom) would be really moving forward while relatively 
moving in the opposite direction. This conveys clearly 
the difference between real and relative direction of 
movement ; and should be closely discriminated in order 
to perceive what is described on these pages in reference 
to sun, earth and moon. 

Much more on the wheel problem could be said in 
illustration of the finite, infinite and proximate ; but is 
omitted in order to bring forward, and within proper 
limits discuss, momentous truths concerning the great 
law of energy, force, power and motion. 

A ball or hoop thrown will, on striking the ground, 
continue in the direction in which it is cast, or will 
return toward the projector, according as the ratio of 
its momentum differentiates in favor of the protectory 
or the rotatory motions. If the protectory motion be 
greater it will continue to roll in the same direction, 
and with increased velocity if the top of the moving 
body be rotating in the same direction ; but if the bot- 
tom be rotating in the same direction while the top is 



40 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

turning backwards, and with a momentum greater than 
the entire forward movement of the mass, then when it 
strikes the ground it will begin to return, and with a 
speed proportioned to the excess of rotatory over protec- 
tory momentum. If the two momentums be equal, the 
object will suddenly come to rest. 

If a cannon ball or a bullet be so fired from a rifled 
barrel that the peripheral particles of matter move with 
a circular speed equal to the forward movement, the 
friction on the object reached will be at a diagonal of 
forty-five degrees, the most effective angle for execution. 

These problems illustrate the infinity of diversifica- 
tion admissible in arguments on many of the great 
problems for investigation; and prepare the way for 
meeting difficulties which prevent us from arriving at 
conclusions that involve accurate calculations. It is 
impossible to calculate with accuracy the ratio between 
the earth's mass momentum in its orbit and the rotary 
momentum on its axis — or the velocity of the two; for 
the whole moves with approximate equality through 
space while the axial speed is infinitely varied between 
the equatorial and the polar peripheries or any axis of 
motion ; and this variation, although exact between sur- 
face and center (if center be the axis) at any given 
parallel, is infinitely differentiated on the surface be- 
tween equator and poles because of the spherical form. 
Besides, the uneven surface made up of hills and valleys 
would alter any approximate calculation. 

The axis of the earth's rotation may remain forever 
an unsolved problem. The axis, like that of the running 
carriage wheel, may be on one side or between that and 



COSMOtflCS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 41 

the center. It may even be away from the earth alto- 
gether, as we shall see farther on. (Pp. 69 and 89.) 

Many interferences, as yet undiscovered, will change 
estimates now made, on which are founded much of 
teaching in our schools. 

Discoveries recently made indicate that the differences 
observed in the spectra of the stars are not caused by 
differences of temperature as has been generally believed, 
but show differences in atmospheric composition. It 
is also now known that in our system are a total of eight 
major, four hundred and thirty-two minor, and twenty- 
one satellite planets, four hundred and sixty-one in all, 
against seven, including the sun, which the ancients 
knew. 

The following pages will show at what wide varia- 
tions from rational conclusions — from truth — our les- 
sons have been taught. Theories must be reconstructed 
as we ascertain the fundamental principles of absolute 
knowledge. In the pendency of transition from false 
to true, teachers and preachers will continue to thrive 
on the credulity of people who are too ignorant, or too 
lazy, to think for themselves. 

Error is the prolific source — the fountain — of evil 
which has for its root the love of money; and millions 
of learned men and women pursue their craft for money, 
while conscious that they are dealing in false or, to say 
the least, uncertain views of life, both here and here- 
after. 

Energy is back of all force and force is behind all 
power. Energy, force, power, are together in the func- 
tion producing motion. Energy is potentiality not in 



42 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

action. Force is energy in action. Power is force over- 
coming resistance. Motion is effected power, and is 
manifested when observable to human sense. 

Energy, force and power constitute the trinity con- 
necting primal cause with ultimate effect. 

Neither energy, force, nor power is ever seen. Motion 
is the manifestation of this trinity of action. Without 
resistance motion would not occur, power would not be 
produced, force would not be exerted, energy would not 
avail. 

Restraint, resistance or obstruction is a condition, of 
any effect. The finites, proximates and infinites that 
we have mentioned, plainly indicate our narrow T limits 
of knowledge and our long distance from the absolute. 
It is Hot worth while to hope that we shall ever produce 
telescopes or microscopes which shall extend our vision 
to the ultimates. We may not reasonably hope to ever 
see a single separate molecule, much less an atom. How 
then are we to know interstitial ether or that still 
remoter state of matter, inter-etheric substance? 

When we aim our telescopes at apparently vacant 
space, and see no stars and yet find that on a sensitive- 
plate, behind the telescope, rays proceeding from beyond 
our ken, bring to us the photographic intelligence that 
stars are there, it is time for us to think of our infinitely 
sublime capacity of intelligence associated with our finite 
physical smallness ; and wonder if there is even a proxi- 
mate ratio between this finite body and the infinite soul 
which inhabits it as a residence of matter occupying a 
point of space for a moment of time ; to then be liber- 
ated into a limitless life in an infinite eternitv. 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 4o 

These views more than intimate the boundlessness of 
all beyond human scope ; at least until man is fitter for 
a range of knowledge vastly wider than he can hope to 
possess while in this tenement of brief existence. He 
may not reach above the denser atmosphere, penetrate 
beneath earth's crust, or explore the center of its 
polar zones. 

For ages to come his researches may be confined 
among the finites, or soar into, but not beyond, the 
proximates. 

The very contracted view held by a vast majority of 
persons concerning the stupendous and beautiful uni- 
verse (and hence their extremely small apprehension of 
its creation and control), is discouraging to those whose 
dreams by night and thoughts by day are of plans for 
elevating above the plane of sense and sordid ambition, 
those who labor to possess only that which adds nothing 
to the intellectual wealth and moral grandeur of com- 
prehensive man. 

To the investigating intellect there appears a delicate 
and indefinite shading of presence into absence, matter 
into space, something into nothing. This infinite blend- 
ing seems to be an inappreciable reality; a proximate 
quantity, too fine to be defined, explained, or compre- 
hended. 

Between the extremes (and apparently independently 
of them) are the abstract quantities : form, dimension 
and number, infinite in variety and extent, constituting 
a trinity other than time, space and matter ; aside from 
any one of them, yet requiring all three for any expres- 
sion or manifestation. 



44 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

The interesting problem of Euclid represents them 
all; constituting a great central and interblending truth, 
uniting as it were, the infinite and the finite in one 
exact, practical, tangible demonstration. Any right 
angled triangle of whatever proportion or size, proves 
the same uncreated, self-existent, eternal truth: The 
square of the hypothenuse equals the sum of the squares 
of the other two sides. See Plate 1. 

Here dimension, form and number are employed. 
Dimension and form are the principles, while number is 
the registrar and serves the same purpose performed by 
time in relation to space and matter. 

We have then the trinity of trinities; form, dimen- 
sion and number in relation to space; solid, liquid and 
gas in relation to matter; and past, present and future 
in relation to tijne. 

Six circles of any size exactly surround a seventh 
of the same size. Figures of six flat equal sides will do 
the same, like the honeycomb in its economic arrange- 
ment. Quartz crystallizes after the same pattern. Does 
intelligence form the comb and not the quartz crystals ? 

All truth must be invariable. Are these truths, laws 
and principles created? Did they ever have a begin- 
ning ? If so, what preceded them ? If not created they 
must be self-existent and indestructible; hence eternal. 
If this be heresy, what is the accusation and who is the 
accuser? Let the plaintiff show himself and his cause. 

Principles cannot be otherwise than omnipresent and 
everlasting. Observed laws operating now must operate 
also at all times and everywhere. The great law of 
energy and its operations cannot have exceptions. 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 45 

The three basic dimensions, length, breadth and thick- 
ness, exist both in fractions of space and in bodies of 
matter. They all pertain to the cube. Each cube has 
twice as many sides as it has dimensions, twice as many 
line corners as it has areas or sides, and twice as many 
line termini as it has line corners; all multiples of 
three. Three lines focus at each point making twenty- 
four termini of lines; again multiples of three, there 
being eight point-corners. 

These eight point-corners indicate eight fundamental 
principles from which all conditions of existence pro- 
ceed. Given in pairs or dualities and classified in their 
antithetical or opposite relations, these are as follows, 
namely : 

Space and Matter, Omnipresence and Limita- 
tion, Persistency* and Consistency/ Continu- 
ance and Divisibility. 

A circle may also be said to have three dimensions: 
the diameter, the circumference and the degree of curva- 
ture. The last mentioned determines accurately the 
other two and, approximately, the measure of a subtend- 
ing line. It is the proximate factor. Illustrations 
almost innumerable might be given. 

*Con=with; together. Per^through; by. Sisto=to stand 
or cause to stand. Consist=to stand with or together. 
Persist=to stand through or by. Consistency=holding 
together; remaining in a fixed and permanent state; a state 
of rest. Persisteney=standing fast and firm in pursuit of 
a purpose undertaken; continuity. Space is continuous and 
therefore persistent. Matter stands with or together and 
is therefore consistent. 



40 COSMONICS or WOKLDS AND FORCES. 



THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STABS. 

It is well known that sunlight on the earth is more 
intense in the morning than in the evening. This fact 
is not accounted for in any book hitherto issued; nor 
has the author of this one ever been able to obtain an 
explanation from any learned professor or scientist. 
When lecturing he has often appealed for a solution, 
but always without success. Yet the solution is very 
simple. It needs but a moment of thought. Earth 
turns eastward, opposite to and meeting the morning 
rays ; but moving along with the evening rays ; i. e., in 
the same direction. So, the eye and all other objects 
resist light vibrations more intensely, as well as receive 
more of them, within a given time, in the early portion 
than in the after part of the day. The contact of rays 
is vitalizing — energizing — in proportion to intensity and 
frequency of the vibrations. Hence, thought-energy is 
keener, and logic as well as learning is more successful 
in the morning; while the lesser light of evening is 
more suited for love, poetry of emotions, and repose. 

Were the earth stationary, with the sun moving 
around it, these effects would be practically the same. 
The principle would also apply to heat, but for the fact 
that having cooled off during the night, the heat is 
absorbed more quickly in the morning than afternoon 
when the warmed earth and objects which are on it, by 
reflex action help to intensify the effect called heat. 

To human sense the operations of nature are illusive, 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 47 

and erroneous ideas are largely the outgrowth of these 
physical illusions. The sun and moon appear to rise 
in the east and set in the west, when it is we who rise and 
set in the opposite directions. It may yet be ascertained 
that instead of spots on the sun, satellites passing across 
its disc, or between it and us, produce the effects which 
have so misguided our conjecture. Chrr hair and our 
nails appear to grow at the outer ends, when in fact the 
growth takes place at the inward end — the roots. 

Our senses give to us the impression that they recog- 
nize by outward action, when the reverse is true. Our 
eyes do not send forth energy, force or instrumentality 
of any kind whereby we see. Sight is an influx. Inflow- 
ing rays convey to our brains impressions according and 
peculiar to -the nature of objects visible. The qualities 
of color, consistency, texture, etc., are conveyed by the 
light rays telling us what is the character of things we 
see. Sound, also is an approaching influence (in-flow- 
ence) . The same is true of smell, taste and feeling. All 
are inflows. Clairvoyance, telepathy, and all transfer- . 
ence of thought are under the same law. 

Our faculties are always at home, and they receive 
many visitations from individuals and objects which often 
are far away. We never go away from our bodies after 
them but, as with physical sight when we turn our eyes 
in the direction from which light comes in order to see, 
while the organs never leave the body, so in clairvoyance, 
or any form of mental vision; rays proceeding from 
objects we would see, through the etheric medium, 
impinge on the sensorium of a receiving brain, bringing 
in some very mysterious and wonderful impressions as 



48 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 

the properties of objects from which they come. Prob- 
ably physical science will never solve this problem. 
Some superscientific revelation may tell us the secret. 
Of one truth we are approximately certain : Analogy 
is quite assuring that our thought-waves produce their 
effect on others by inflowence at the termination of their 
journey, and not by exflowence at its inception. 

Human and other animal bodies emit exfluences which 
reciprocate and affect one another, carrying on the out- 
flow properties or qualities which are detected by sensi- 
tive receivers at considerable distances ; but such exhala- 
tions, effluvial or magnetic, never come back to us bring- 
ing conditions they meet. The effects they produce, or 
impressions they make are often indicated by sensible 
expressions of delight or displeasure from the recipients 
who are affected by them. 

The idea that any part of our system reaches out 
invisible tentacles to return with captured intelligence, 
is an error; although they cause responses in the object 
reached. These responses are expressions from animate 
objects. From inanimate objects they come as echoes. 

All bodies exhale exfluences which become influences 
when other bodies absorb them; sometimes copiously 
enough to feel or sense the character of the sources from 
which they emanate, and sometimes to describe them 
with remarkable minuteness: Even disease is conveyed 
on the "magnetic" tide which is constantly a medium 
of ailment, thought and character transference. 

In a higher life unencumbered by organs of sense (on 
which we here so much depend), and without physical 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 49 

sight or speech, intercourse may be easier and more 
enjoyable. 

The radiant energy of a human brain is enormous and 
is easily perceived by other brains which are in properly 
corresponding relations. This perception comes by 
impact of thought rays or waves from one brain beating 
against others. Perhaps the meeting of these mental 
forces very near the receiving brain, or within it, pro- 
duces illuminations by resistance; just as light is pro- 
duced near and on the earth by physical rays from the 
sun meeting kindred rays within our magnetosphere and 
atmosphere. Emanations from the earth are sometimes 
active enough to produce visible effects in aurora bore- 
alis when the sun's rays are not overpowering, or when 
they coincide as they come from the farther side of our 
globe. There is nothing more mysterious than this in 
the halo around a highly magnetic head. Thought rays 
or waves from a human brain are as real and effective as 
magnetic emanations from its mother earth ; and emana- 
tions from the entire human body are felt by another in 
proximity, when relations between the two are favorable 
for such sensations ; sometimes agreeable, at other times 
unpleasant. 

Objects which do not radiate but reflect light are seen 
by means of the physical eye. Why may not they be 
recognized by the mental vision also, although they be 
inanimate and emit no radiations as do living organ- 
isms? They may reflect light for physical eyes and 
radiate magnetism for mental vision. 

Until within a few hundred years, teachers and people 
alike, religious and scientific, supposed the earth flat, 



50 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

and the man who discovered the error was persecuted 
for heresy. Those individuals have departed; but 
though the priesthood of that day persecuted Galileo 
and ridiculed Columbus, that of to-day is loud in the 
praises of these martyrs; especially the latter who pio- 
neered a path to treasures of gold, and an outlet for 
passions, the indulgence of which languished for want 
of innocent victims at home. 

Now the whole Christian world believes much that free 
thinkers a few years ago were persecuted for teaching; 
yet the spirit of denunciation, prejudice and oppression 
survives. Even when the sphere theory had been 
accepted, the idea long prevailed that our world was in 
the center and that all else moved around it ; that there 
was only one sun and one moon, both of which moved 
westward continually ; whereas it is now ascertained that 
the moon moves in the same direction as ourselves ; but, 
having a vastly larger circuit requires more time in 
which to complete it and, although moving with greater 
speed, continually falls behind. Hence, we pass it every 
day and find ourselves in the same relative position but 
once a month. Still, some people find it easier to believe 
that the sun goes around the earth in twenty-four hours, 
than that the earth goes around the sun in eight or nine 
thousand hours ; and this when the sun is a million times 
the largest body, and in either case the distance must 
be the same. Within the author's memory, school-books 
taught "the sun w^as made to give us light by day, and 
the moon to give us light by night ;" but no explanation 
w r as given why the moon was absent leaving us in dark- 
ness a large portion of the time. 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 51 

"Scientists" yet say that the moon was formerly inhab- 
ited, but is now dead and cold. They teach that this 
earth was once a sun or a blazing star, and has been 
cooled into an inhabited planet ; running its race to the 
moon's condition. It is also an accepted theory among 
these teachers that the aggregation and condensation of 
molecules, or matter, eliminates energy ; whereas energy 
accumulates and intensifies instead of being evolved or 
dissipated thereby. This has been proved by Mr. John 
W. Keely, whose researches into the remote energies and 
operations of nature surpassed all predecessors or con- 
temporaries, notwithstanding the vilifications by unprin- 
cipled enemies during life and fraudulent so-called 
exposers after his death; a most corrupt and cowardly 
proceeding, easily explained by those who saw behind 
the curtains and had the moral courage to face black- 
mailing influences operating through a willing press. 

The doctors, undoubtedly, will declare preposterous 
the idea that they are in error ; that the reverse of their 
theory is true ; that our moon is in a gestative stage and 
is to be born as a full-fledged world many ages hence 
when our planet, the earth, will confer seasons thereon, 
as our sun does now on the earth; and that then the 
moon will present all equatorial sides to the earth and 
rotate on its axis instead of having a tilting motion of 
about five degrees as it now has. 

The theory that this earth's interior is a molten mass, 
and that the center is a focus of attraction, is another 
scientific absurdity which must give way to rational 
truth; as will be shown farther on. That a portion of 
the interior is molten cannot be doubted; but it is a 



52 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

comparatively shallow sea instead of occupying all 
within the outer crust. An outer and an inner crust, 
with a molten lava sea between, is w r ithin the range of 
reason as we shall show. (Figs. C and D.) 

How a belief ever became general, that the moon's 
attraction exercises a pulling force on the ocean, causing 
tides, is impossible to understand of reasoning men, 
and it is quite as difficult, in view of their sanity, to see 
how they can believe that the moon is held from flying 
off on a tangent by being drawn towards the earth, under 
the influence of mutual attraction. Such a force would 
be properly denominated negative; and a negative 
energy is not possible of comprehension. (P. 100.) 

A vacuum in one end of a cylinder does not attract 
the piston. It simply weakens the pressure which at 
the same time is increased in the opposite end, and the 
piston moves in the direction of least resistance, as mat- 
ter always moves; under positive action. 

When we take lemonade through a straw- it is errone- 
ously called suction. Instead we simply produce a vacu- 
ous (or negative) condition in the mouth and positive 
atmospheric pressure on the lemonade forces it to the 
place of least resistance. The lemonade is not pulled in 
by the mouth, be it ever so palatable, or "attractive," 
albeit the sour and sweet are said to be in affinity 
because of opposite conditions. Sour lemons and sweet 
lips are less inclined than two pairs of lips when both 
are very sweet. This appears to be an exception to a 
general rule that likes repel. But, instead of being 
draw r n together, they are driven, by the mutual thoughts 
back of them, when there is no repelling force between. 



COSMONIGS OF WORLDS AXD FORGES. Do 

What shall we say of the long accepted and established 
theory of universal attraction referred for its discovery 
to Sir Isaac Xewton? Simply that it is an error and 
that our schools are therein teaching untruth. Our 
explanations and illustrations will verify this to every 
unprejudiced mind. Such a well-settled scientific 
dogma is a fancied Gibraltar of science and, in the opin- 
ion of schools, impregnable to attack. He who has the 
temerity to make an assault on this phantom fortress 
must be prepared for a fantastic fusillade of gibes and 
ostracisms; for so-called science abounds in bigots and 
intolerant persecuting devotees. (Pp. 8-i, 85 and 94.) 

If the popular theory of attraction were true, there 
would be no hydrostatic paradox to cause puzzling argu- 
ments; for weight would quickly destroy it. In differ- 
ential columns of liquid they would not stand at a level. 
The height of each would quickly be differenced 
according to their weights respectively. The small col- 
umn would rise and the large one fall until their weights 
would be equal; but, as will be shown farther on, cos- 
monies makes the solution. easy and shows that it is not 
a paradox, even though the two communicating columns 
stand at a level. So, also, when cold water sinks, and 
colder water comes to the surface as ice, the paradox 
idea vanishes as knowledge of cause takes its place. 
Xature's fondness for a paradox is as chimerical as her 
abhorrence of a vacuum. (P. 95.) 

The only way the great problem of the universe can 
ever be scientifically solved is by studying and arriving 
at just conclusions regarding the true nature and char- 
acter of force. Truth must supplant error in our pro- 



54 OOSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

cesses of education and systems of learning, which now 
are largely false. 

Truth is both an impregnable fortress of protection 
and an irresistible engine of attack. The author of this 
book has neither dread nor hesitation. He regards it 
better to be vanquished by truth than to be victorious in 
error. He who overcomes in a conflict where error is 
beaten, receives the gratitude even of the defeated who 
are honest. 

Egotism should be abhorred. It is egotistical to 
believe or suppose that our age is at the apex of knowl- 
edge; or that anything must be untrue if it does not 
agree with our preconceived views or our text books. 
Other discoverers and authors have had to give way, 
and present systems must yield if they cannot withstand 
assault. Even the assailants who overcome in any pres- 
ent conflict may live to see their own fabrics fall, or 
leave a theory to be overthrown by later discoveries. 

Every claim here laid is an appeal to the reason of 
each reader, with the request for some better solution 
of the great problems of existence ; and for any improve- 
ment in the bases on which our so-called sciences are 
founded. An inclination to decry is easily indulged; 
but an ambition to destroy is not easily gratified. It is 
better to have an imperfect structure than to be without 
shelter; and it is not a mark of exalted manhood to 
destroy without making some effort at erecting a fyetter 
building. 

It is better to have some theory than to have none, 
for a belief, however erroneous, affords an incentive to 
action, which, even though inaccurate, is better than 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 55 

indolence. It inspires to emulation and eventuates in 
improvement. Indifference is a worse evil than activity 
in error, for, by the latter, truth will ultimately be 
accepted. 

From the darkness of ignorance into the light of intel- 
ligence must be either gradual or blinding. Like the 
physical, so the intellectual eye cannot endure a too sud- 
den change. Away from despotic rule into a free form 
of government must needs be through grades of better- 
ment; but always mixed with wrong until the abso- 
lutely right has won. Even in our boasted freedom the 
struggle is yet on. Progress in science is thus far only 
towards the light. Some day we may be in it. 

"Truth comes to us with slow and doubtful step, 
Carefully views the ground on which she treads ; 
Ever turns her eye to see that all is right behind, 
While with a keen survey she marks her onward path/" 

As rich fruits and beautiful flowers grow from seem- 
ingly filthy soils, so truth often springs from foulest 
errors. When these are discovered they are discussed; 
and as friction of mind brings the fire of thought, so 
latent light is evolved into brilliant coruscations from 
obscure but active brains. Many of our teachers are 
obstructing rather than assisting the truth. Our age 
is less liberal than ages to come. Errors and their 
adherents will die together, while truth and its teachers 
are coming forth to occupy the vacated places. Corpses 
of the dead past enrich the soil of a fertile future, in 
which will be recognized the great law of energy, force, 



56 C0SM0NICS OF worlds and forces. 

power and motion. Energy is the origin and motion 
the manifestation of action. 

Energy, force, power, motion are the concatena- 
tion and gradation of influence effecting results and 
working as a law, universal in mental as w r ell as in 
material operations. Ability is mental energy; will is 
mental force; effort is mental power and accomplish- 
ment is mental effect or motion. This line of action 
expounds the unity of law in all the operations of exist- 
ence. Like every other truth w T hen once known, this 
will guide us in the solution of all problems not yet 
proved. (P. 42.) 

Unity of law is evidenced in crystalline forms on geo- 
metric lines like the waxen cells of the honeycomb ; also 
in winter frost on window panes in imitation of living- 
forms as ferns of the forest. 

Every law of nature is exceptionless, continuous and 
infallible. Every law is conformatory to every other 
law in its results, rewards and retributions. No one can 
be revoked; not one can be evaded. Every one is an 
exponent of some universal principle. Penalties for dis- 
obedience attach to moral as well as to physical laws. 
They cannot be evaded. 

It is a law universal that force becomes power and is 
manifested only when obstructed. To obtain power from 
air we must impede it. The wind engine is an obstruc- 
tion to the breeze or the gale. Water-wheels turn, doing 
work, by resisting the current's flow. When water is 
expanded into vapor or steam it accomplishes nothing 
until its expanding force is resisted by the piston. An 
electric flow along the conducting wire displays no 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. DY 

power until interrupted. Light, heat and sound are 
produced under the law of resistance. Human char- 
acter is not an exception but is developed by overcom- 
ing restraints. The theory that antagonism arouses 
resolution is thus expressed by the poet, Goethe : "The 
obstacles we meet are the stairs by which we climb to 
success." Many are the men who have become influ- 
ential because of their struggles in overcoming obstacles. 
Opposition arouses energy into fervency and force into 
power, evolving manhood from, elements which never 
would become factors in revolutions but for the friction 
which brings out the latent fires of life. Opposition in 
debate arouses efforts which result in brilliant argu- 
ment. The antagonisms of atheists and infidels have 
provoked preachers to determined effort for more prac- 
tical Christianity and rational doctrine, whereby religi- 
ous truth is brought into the light of knowledge and 
prospects of Christian peace brightened beyond prece- 
dent. So the war of tyrants against liberators resulted 
in the abolition of slavery, as it had liberated America 
from its thralldom to Europe. The character of Jesus 
glows with an effulgence all the brighter because of the 
obstructions and persecutions which He outlives. 

Eestraint or obstruction is an essential, but not the 
principal, factor in action. It must be overcome. The 
principal factor is force, which must be superior to the 
resistance in order to manifest power and obtain effects. 
The active must preponderate over the obstructive. 
Force is positive; obstruction is intermediate; power is 
the proximate and motion is the negative quantity. 
Energy is independent and infinite. Motion is depend- 



58 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AKD FORCES. 

ent and finite. These are the extremes. Force and 
power are the means. Taken together they constitute 
the proximate quantity as between the other two, which 
are ultimates of action. Obstruction is a requisite con- 
dition, but when superior to force, prevents the latter 
from any manifestation in motion. 

Energy being infinite and omnipresent is predomi- 
nant. Force being energy in action is the rule, while 
rest, if there be such, is the exception so far as matter 
is involved. Absolute ^stillness is not probable any- 
where. It is not found and cannot be produced. Every 
molecule of matter is in motion; every atom is con- 
stantly in agitation. 

On the difference between force and resistance 
depends the degree of effects produced. Action is intense 
in proportion as force predominates. Their differentia- 
tion is the cause of constant and extensive change. The 
nearer they are equilibrated the more healthy and agree- 
able the condition. Extremes of either are inimical to 
life. Crystals could not be formed without action, and 
they could not exist wdth too much of it. The happy 
medium is forever sought, but perfect equilibrium is 
never maintained. This results in unceasing change — 
the ideal existence. 

Ships move against resisting waters because the force 
of the wind is made greater by a larger area of resisting 
surface of sail. This is the superior facility of wind 
over water. Oars also overcome the ponderosity of the 
boat by greater facility of motion in the resisting water. 
Fish could not swim if the medium in which they move 
did not resist them, as the fins and tails could not per- 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 59 

form their functions. They move, as do all other bodies, 
animate and inanimate, in the direction of least resist- 
ance. No sounds are produced except when sound- 
waves are obstructed, and sometimes, as in the echo, 
reflected. 

Transmitted heat is mild or intense in proportion to 
the restraint overcome in its passage, or the obstruction 
at the end of its journey. If perpendicular it is greater 
than if oblique. Oblique rays, however, are more effec- 
tive in their vitalizing results. Note the difference in 
their effects at the poles and at the equator, or at any 
of the intervening portions of the earth; how slight at 
the poles where they slant, and how great at the equator, 
where they are vertical. The principle involved applies 
in all operations everywhere. The midway angle — 45° 
— is the happy medium and most favorable to high 
development. 

Morning rays from the sun seem brighter than even- 
ing rays because the former are contacting and the lat- 
ter are coincident. So astronomers, by more or less 
frequent vibrations of light from any star, determine 
its approach or departure. The sun's rays are obstructed 
by pur atmosphere. A sloping transmission distributes 
the resistance over longer distances and causes a slant- 
ing impact on arrival at the earth ; whereas more direct 
rays produce greater effects by more obstructive impacts 
within less distance, causing greater heat near the 
equator than towards the poles. Besides, the earth also 
gives off rays, as does the sun. Where these rays meet 
obliquely the effect is less than where they meet more 
directly. Near the poles they nearly coincide and move 



GO COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

in approximately the same direction. The impact there 
is too slight for much effect. Their light would be very 
dim but for the reflecting snow and ice. Farther from 
the poles these rays flank, and still farther they par- 
tially meet, bearing the equator they meet more 
directly, and immediately under it they clash with cor- 
respondingly fervent and brilliant effect; varying with 
Earth's differing positions, which cause the changing 
seasons. 

Eadiations from both Sun and Earth are perpendicu- 
lar to their surfaces at every point; but the directions of 
their arrival at other bodies are infinitely varied and 
constantly varying at any given point, with both rota- 
tions and revolutions (as of the earth both on its axis 
and in its orbit), although as a whole they may be con- 
sidered always the same on any one planet. 

Kays from the earth have to struggle through our 
atmosphere, developing warmth by restraint or resist- 
ance. The sun's rays also are struggling through our 
atmosphere. When, owing to position or some other 
cause, they do not meet with sufficient directness, the 
fervency and illumination are not sufficient for sum- 
mer's heat and light. 

The rays resisted by atmosphere develop heat, while 
those contacted by their kind, i. e., magnetic meeting 
magnetic, produce light. 

The lens form of Earth's magnetic and atmospheric 
envelope, by refraction and focalization, has much to 
do in modifying both light and heat. 

As downward rays reach our atmosphere, pass through 
it and meet its resistance, they are focalized ; curving as 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 61 

the atmosphere becomes denser, so that they are inten- 
sified as they approach the earth somewhat as they are 
affected in passing through a sun glass. This refrac- 
tion enables us to see the sun both earlier and later 
than we otherwise would, and also to exist nearer to the 
poles. This problem, however, is not solved, and can- 
not now be intelligently discussed. Many of Nature's 
problems remain unsolved because the factors and inter- 
ferences are not known. 

Of course, the larger the sun or planet, the greater 
is its capacity as a reservoir of magnetism; and hence 
the greater the volume which it can supply. This is 
an important consideration; but still more important 
is the principle of its areal effects on radiation, and also 
of its distant influences; for the larger the sphere the 
more nearly does its form of surface approach a level 
plane or straight line, consequently, the more nearly do 
its rays, departing at right angles, thereby pursue a 
parallel course to distances far away, and, because less 
divergent, continue nearer together; hence, a larger 
number of them reach a given space or area at a given 
distance (Plate 7), while the smaller the sphere and 
the shorter or more acute the curvature of surface, the 
more divergent or spreading are the rays, and the more 
limited their extent of reach with equal effect. From 
the earth rays rapidly diverge, becoming sparse, widely 
separated within a short distance, hence very weak and 
ineffective before they reach another planet, except the 
moon, which is near, while rays proceeding from the 
sun are larger in volume, depart from a surface more 
extended, hence less abrupt in curvature, and so nearly 



62 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

a level plane that (leaving at right angles thereto) they 
proceed in more approximately parallel directions and 
separate very slowly, reaching to a much greater dis- 
tance before they are far apart. Hence many more 
impinge on a given area, with proportionately great 
effect. 

The result is that the point where sun rays and earth 
rays are equally apart or separated, is very near^the 
earth. This is the line of magnetic equilibrium, or bed 
of motion on which the child, the earth, revolves around 
its parent, the sun. The diameter of the sun being 
180 times the diameter of our planet, the curvature of 
their surfaces is differenced by corresponding degrees, 
and the divergence of rays is varied accordingly. 

This affords a means of determining the distance 
between Earth and Sun whenever we can ascertain their 
difference of mass and relative direction of rays pro- 
ceeding from their two respective surfaces at such great 
variance of curvature. (Plate 7.) 

In estimating the distances between bodies, by the 
parallelism or divergence of proceeding rays, another 
factor must be taken into account, and perhaps other 
factors as yet unthought of. Refraction of rays is per- 
haps the most important, and presents a possibly insu- 
perable barrier to estimates of either distances or direc- 
tions with any approximate accuracy Such estimates, 
however, are of little consequence, in comparison with a 
knowledge of the great principle which underlies all 
action, and the true law recognized, replacing the 
erroneous theory of attraction. Estimates of distances, 
and also of directions, are formed by other methods 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 63 

which, however, may be very inaccurate, owing to inter- 
ferences above mentioned which render telescopes and 
spectroscopes alike unreliable in all past and present 
methods. 

Volume of energy does not so much determine dis- 
tance of reach as does parallelism of rays [see p. 61], 
whereby many impinge on a given area of surface, for 
instance, a square inch. A thousand instruments of 
music will not be heard much further than one, although 
the volume be a thousand times as great. As volume 
of a sphere and its convexity of surface are likely to 
correspond, they need not be separately considered in 
any calculations proposed. Mass measures capacity &> 
a reservoir or storage battery, while curvature of surface 
indicates comparative reach of projected rays with effec- 
tive impacts. 

In all of this color plays a conspicuous part ; and each 
color has its especial order of action under the one great 
vibratory law. Blue, red, yellow, etc., each comes of a 
specific range of pulsations in time, distance and form, 
differing from every other, while blending shades 
infinitely multiply and complicate the variations. 

The differences in distance between the two bodies at 
perihelion and aphelion — about 3,000,000 miles — is due 
to the one grand annual oscillation of earth in its orbit ; 
more easily observed than accounted for. On this great 
orbital variation are the daily oscillations forming its 
crooked path, as billows on tides, under the law of 
universal wave motions. Sidereal oscillations are to be 
inferred under the same universal rule. The moon per- 
forms a spiral in relation to the earth, and these 



64 C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

together move in a grander spiral around the sun ; there- 
fore, we may safely infer that all other satellites — moons 
and planets — behave in like manner towards our sun; 
and also that the same law is followed in all other sys- 
tems of stars and that each one of these many systems 
obeys the same law in its movements around a great 
sidereal center. 

Magnetic radiations from both Earth and Moon blend 
in one magnetic sphere and move together around the 
sun. Other planets and their moons do likewise. There- 
fore, our sun, with all the planets and moons of our 
solar system, so blend their magnetic spheres in one 
comprehensive sphere as to move in one magnetic mass. 
like a single orb around its great supersolar center, 
while a grand system of supersolar systems are in like 
manner moving around an extra supersolar center of 
a supersolar universe composed of many solar systems 
made up of suns and planets with attendant moons. 

Pulsations or Vibrations Constitute the Basis 
of All Motion. They form a great law of action, deter- 
mining results when energy, by restrained force, ulti- 
mates, through power, in motion. 'Resistance, restraint 
or impediment, is a condition of all observed effects. 

All matter, in its constant agitation, differs in stages 
or in ranges of molecular, atomic and etheric motion; 
ether in atoms, atoms in molecules, molecules in mass. 

The ocean oscillates in tides on which are billows 
bearing waves. On these are wavelets carrying ripples 
with ripplets, and these yet finer lines of surface motion. 
The earth's orbit is one grand radial variance per year, 
made up of 365 line-waves, while its axial rotation is 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 65 

uneven, with its mass in constant agitation or tremor, 
and its atmosphere is burdened with pulsations causing 
sound, heat, light and other forms of continual dis- 
turbance. 

Any tree bending under a gale, while its branches 
also sway to and fro and its leaves tremble, is a visible 
expression typical of universal energy arid its ramifi- 
cations through force, power and motion, in many 
branches from the great source which is too remote for 
physical sense to recognize, but which the higher facul- 
ties of soul consciously behold in the light of reason, 
impressed by analogy and proved by the results of 
experiment. 

The ingenuity of man has devised means for counting 
pulsations of sound and vibrations of light, neither of 
which can be recognized by unaided physical sense. He 
ascertains the existence of molecules by their propor- 
tions in many chemical combinations. He recognizes 
the arrangement of atoms in these molecules, and meas- 
ures the ranges of their motions by which he determines 
the tenacity and integrity of their mass. He essays to 
demonstrate the distances of planets from the sun, the 
rate of speed in their movements and the composition of 
their substances. He also, by photographic science 
through our most powerful telescopes, proves that suns 
exist beyond the human ken. Astronomers estimate 
that 100,000,000 suns — centers of systems — revolve 
within range of their largest instruments. 

It is not conceivable that infinite space lacks ample 
room to accommodate any imaginable number of sys- 
tems. Their distances apart are so vast, and they are 



06 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

so far from us that, under the law of perspective, one 
entire system revolves within a range of what appears 
to us like a single point of light ; and we call it a star. 

In his beautiful inquiry concerning the souls of 
brutes, Martin F. Tupper says : "There lacks not room 
nor time nor care, where all is infinite," and "space is 
wide enough for every grain of the broad sands that 
curb our swelling seas, each separate in its sphere, to 
stand apart as far as sun from sun." A more sublime 
utterance of grandeur concerning immensity of the 
physical universe cannot easily be imagined. 

Each orb is the center of its own magnetic sphere, 
immense beyond imagination's grasp; and extending 
through other magnetic spheres, which are embraced, 
the smaller within the larger, until there is formed a 
solar system composed of a sun, its planets and their 
moons, constituting a distinct group of stars apparently 
independent of other groups, while really they are mem- 
bers of a great family of such groups or systems held 
in order by interlacing magnetic rays with a binding 
force inconceivable to the human soul and incalculable 
by human intellect. A whole system, so held, revolves 
as a single sphere around its own solar center as an axis, 
while moving as a mass in a great solar orbit around a 
supersolar cejiter along with other systems to which it 
is related by kindred family ties ; and while they cannot 
clash, neither can they fly apart; nor can one system, 
solar, supersolar, or extra supersolar, act otherwise than 
as if it were a single star in its behavior towards its 
relatives in a group or a great group. 

Every great group of extra supersolar systems per- 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 67 

petually moves along with associate neighbors of like 
proportions in the direction of least resistance towards 
a starless realm of infinite space, a region which is not 
already occupied or is least occupied by matter. 

These blending magnetic spheres have lines of mag- 
netic equilibrium between each two orbs — as between 
earth and sun. This line of equation, where the rays 
from each are of equal intensity, is always nearer to the 
smaller body, or smaller family of spheres, as the case 
may be ; and its distance from each is in proportion to 
their difference in size, by virtue of the difference in 
divergence of the magnetic radiations depending on 
their less or greater curvature of surface, which governs 
the variance from parallelism of the departing rays, 
while their corresponding masses govern the propor- 
tionate volume of radiation sent forth. (Fig. B.) 

Evaporation from liquids is according to surface 
exposed rather than volume contained; so likewise is 
radiation according to surface or area instead of the 
volume or mass of matter from which rays proceed. 
Below the surface radiation is less in proportion to 
depth, because of restraint or obstruction by superin- 
cumbent mass, whereby force is transformed into fer- 
vency. While it is inevitable that area is increased as 
mass is augmented, it is not necessarily in the same 
ratio. Much depends on shape. A flat and thin body 
presents more surface than a cube or sphere of equal 
weight or mass. The surface of a sphere is less than 
that of any other form equal in quantity of matter ; but 
the larger the sphere the greater must be its area, and 
of necessity the vaster its radiative energy and of ter- 



68 C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

minal influence, whether calculated by mass or surface. 
But curvature of surface is the true basis of estimates, 
and, as we are dealing chiefly with spheres, these are to 
be kept in mind as we proceed. 

Eough and uneven surfaces give a greater area per 
volume of mass than perfectly smooth, polished and even 
surfaces; or, what is regarded as level, though of a 
sphere. Level here means a line or plane equally dis- 
tant from a center. Eough or uneven surfaces of any 
area give off a larger number of rays than smooth, pol- 
ished and even surfaces; but they are less potent and 
far-reaching, for this reason: In rough regions of the 
earth, where hills and mountains abound, rays from the 
surface may be perpendicular, horizontal or diagonal 
to the general exterior of the globe, and so cross one 
another as to interlace and, by dispersion or interfer- 
ence, be less effective, whereas in level regions rays are 
more nearly parallel, harmonious and effective on the 
air, and also on distant bodies of solid matter or spheres. 

Kays are emitted at right angles to surfaces unless 
refracting influences affect their direction. Their 
departure is always in form for the greatest effect; i. 
e., in harmony w T ith Nature's requirements, aiming at 
the highest results; but their arrival at points of des- 
tination is infinitely varied in effect, according to direc- 
tion and impacts on objects reached. The angle of 
incidence is of great importance in determining effects. 
The diagonal of 45 degrees is most effective in reaching 
high results. 

Our sun is more than 1,000,000 times larger than our 
planet, while they are less than 100,000,000 miles apart. 



COSMOKICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 69 

The difference in mass and surface curvature being pro- 
portionate, the line of magnetic equilibrium between 
them falls within 100 miles of the earth, which approxi- 
mates the true distance. (Plate 7.) 

Where 100 rays from the sun meet 100 rays of equal 
intensity, from the earth, is this line of magnetic equili- 
brium — the bed of motion on which the earth rolls 
around the sun. As this bed of motion is many miles 
from the earth, whereby the earth, being surrounded 
by a magnetic sheath somewhat like unto the tire of a 
carriage wheel, may have its axis of turning far outside 
the surface, at this line of equilibrium, as the wheel's 
axis of motion is on its periphery, where the tire touches 
the earth ; and as the wheel's hub and axle travel in the 
same direction and at the same speed of the entire car- 
riage, so may the earth's axial center move on a curve 
or a straight line (as the case may be) as the entire 
earth moves, its axis of motion (p. 40) being on the side 
farthest from the sun, as if it were rolling on the inside 
of a circle larger than the earth's orbit, by effect of 
sun-rays in contact with earth-rays between earth and 
sun, at this line of motion ; as one cog wheel is turned 
by the cogs of another, or as a carriage wheel would 
move if turned by the rotation of the earth; in which 
case the top of the wheel would be the axis of motion 
and would move approximately in a straight line, while 
relatively to the bottom of the wheel it would not move 
at all. 

Imagine a stationary level plane six feet above the 
earth at its equator. Then imagine a six-foot wheel 
between them touching both plane and earth. If now 



70 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

the wheel be turned by the earth's rotation and rolled 
against the plane above, along on the plane's under side, 
the top of the wheel will be the axis of rotation, w r hile 
the bottom of the wheel will move with the surface of 
the earth at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour and the 
hub at 500 miles an hour, the top of the wheel, rela- 
tively, not moving at all, but being the axis of the entire 
wheel's motion. 

The line of magnetic equilibrium between the earth 
and its moon is comparatively near to the latter. The 
moon's distance and relative size may likewise deter- 
mine its range of contacted rays, or the distance away 
at w T hich its rays meet those from the earth. 

Rays from the sun onto the moon are so reflected by 
the law of incidence on a spherical surface that they 
are thence thrown to the earth in like degree of parallel- 
ism to that of their process between sun and moon, so 
that rays from the sun to the moon and thence to the 
earth come to us with more directness, force and volume 
than if radiated from the moon. 

The difference in condition between any two bodies 
or spheres, where one is the center of the other's orbit, 
is of great importance in determining the relative dis- 
tance reached by lines of radiation, and thence of the 
corresponding distance from each body, of their common 
bed of motion. In the case of Sun and Earth both 
bodies are fervent; and the line is farther from the 
earth than it would be were the earth a dormant body, 
while also it is nearer to the sun than it would be if that 
were more fervent than it is, or if it were what it is 
supposed to be, a ball of fire or a molten mass — a fixed 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 71 

fountain of heat warming the earth by calorific rays 
traversing etheric space a distance of more than 
90,000,000 miles. 

The moon is not so fervent as the earth — not so much 
alive; therefore, the earth's magnetic rays reach with 
dominating "force nearly to the satellite, but not suffi- 
ciently near to develop light within its very scanty 
atmosphere, so that only when rays from sun and earth 
unite is there light enough on the moon to produce 
brightness visible on the earth. Hence the shadow of 
the earth on the moon alters its phases from new to 
full, and so on, according to their relative position. Yet, 
were we on the moon, in as complete an atmosphere as 
now envelops the earth, our planet, Earth, would appear 
to us as dazzling as does the sun. 

Earth, seen from the planet Venus, appears as bright 
as Venus does to our eyes. Both Earth and Venus are 
as bright as the sun, in proportion to size; but their 
spheres being small, rays from them separate so rapidly 
that they disperse into space and soon lose their power 
of impression. The moon's radiations are still more 
quickly dispersed ; her body being small and her surface 
curvature being short or acute, they never come to our 
atmosphere with sufficient force to produce any per- 
ceptible effect. Hence the moon does not seem to be 
self-luminant. 

Quantity of magnetism is in proportion to the mass of 
matter which is its source of supply. Eeach of effect 
by distance is according to extent of surface curvature, 
which determines divergence or degree of parallelism 



72 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

and hence volume of impact on objects. This repetition 
is warranted by the importance of the law. 

The sun's magnetic rays depart from so large a sphere 
that their divergence is very gradual as they proceed 
on their journey; and a sufficient number of them reach 
our atmosphere (pp. 69-71), meeting magnetic rays 
from the earth to produce heat and light ample for our 
life, growth and energy, together with all the grand 
beauty by which we are surrounded. So impressively 
sublime are these magnificent wonders that we have 
exalted ideas of our sun as a source of energy. (Plate 7.) 

In the dim light of knowledge now possessed, or even 
in the twilight of its earlier dawn, is there any theory, 
or anything, more preposterous and absurd than the 
teachings of our most eminent preachers, professors and 
experts in physics : that rays of heat emitted from the 
sun traverse absolutely cold space over 90,000,000 miles 
without giving up their calorie until they reach objects 
on the earth? 

Up to dates quite recent, even among so-called "scien- 
tists," the sun has been, and yet is, regarded as a ball 
of fire, while many foolish theories prevail as to what 
keeps up the caloric. If the sun were a fiery mass, emit- 
ting heat and light directly from its own body, the tops 
of our high mountains and the upper portions of our 
atmosphere would not be so cold, for they would be 
nearer the source of heat and light than the valleys and 
lower stratas of air. 

In the elevated regions our atmosphere is too rare 
for serious obstruction to the sun's magnetic rays ; hence 
heat is not there intensely developed, while in the denser 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 73 

atmosphere and greater consistency of earth's magnet- 
ism in lower portions where the sun's rays are more 
impeded, yet can penetrate without the obstructions or 
interference of solid objects, are more favorable condi- 
tions of warmth. Light rays reach to a greater dis- 
tance, and, being more diffusive, are but slightly differ- 
entiated between high and low portions. In high por- 
tions, where the air is thin and less laden with moisture, 
light reflections are less obstructed, and hence objects 
are clearly seen at greater distances. 

As before stated, our limited space does not admit of 
anticipatory answers to all possible questions. The sub- 
ject is vast and varied beyond estimate, and this treatise 
though very compendious, must serve our present pur- 
pose. 

The object here is more to arouse inquiries than to 
answer them. Errors are often, yet honestly, promul- 
gated by the schools. Teachers adhere with remarkable 
tenacity to text-books based on unfounded theories, 
which they can neither explain nor understand. Blind 
leaders of the blind. Theorists gain for themselves 
both notoriety and money by propagating irrational 
views revolting to every sense of right. It is amazing 
to see how large a number of persons, both men and 
women, subsist on the credulity and inertness of their 
fellows — on mental and moral prostitution. Their 
teachings are fathered by either ignorance or deceptive 
intent. The views entertained and advanced by 
instructors that God makes worlds at once (or in six 
days) complete, full size, and replete with life, occupy- 
ing but a few hours in the operation, and projects them 



74 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

into space instantly and with sufficient force to keep 
them whirling in great circles for thousands of years, 
is foolish enough to pass without comment or notice, 
were it not that this is in line with a train of hideous 
and repulsive errors which have caused suffering to 
millions of unthinking believers. 

Less of theology and more of common sense would 
bring vastly more benefit to the race, and less danger 
of condemnation to the teachers who, by turning many 
from the error of their ways, would be more likely to 
please Him who said: "My people are destroyed for 
lack of knowledge." 

It seems very strange that any intelligent creature 
can believe that God lived alone from no beginning up 
to six thousand years ago ; then, in six days — 144 hours 
of work — He made all the worlds and law r s, and has been 
resting ever since. Where was the intellect with which 
His beneficence endowed the race, when it entertained 
this preposterous absurdity ? How is it possible for even 
the plain people to be frightened by any hideous pictures 
presented for their torture, when coming from such 
trifling teachers? Would the prodigal son have been 
punished by his father had he not returned? No; he 
would only have suffered the penalty of his own unwise 
course. But the silly world is attracted more by trifles 
than by truths. Tobacco smoke and beer froth are 
more fascinating than bread and butter. 

Some obscure astronomer springs into notoriety by 
expressing, through the press, an opinion that the planet 
Mars is inhabited ; and straightway the world of readers 
is agog over the idea because newspapers herald a notice 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 75 

of his declaration. Neither the papers nor the professor 
has an opinion worth any more than the conjectures of 
the merest novice. An abler thinker's view may have 
passed without notice., unless he has achieved notoriety 
in advance; which, however, would not enhance the 
value of his opinion. 

.Sir John Herschel gave out an estimate, and pro- 
fessors have often repeated it, that a cylinder of ice 46 
miles thick, if darted into the sun with the velocity of 
light, or 190,000 miles per second, might be melted, 
as fast as moved, by heat radiated from the suri, without 
lowering the temperature of the sun itself; because of 
the great volume and high intensity of its heat extend- 
ing far into space. This would be melting such an 
enormous bolt of ice at the rate of 11,000,000 miles 
per minute. It is not easy to imagine how any rational 
man can repeat or entertain such an absurdity. There 
is very good reason to believe that the great cylinder 
projected as described would reach the surface of the 
sun entire, unless thawed by friction produced in pass- 
ing through the sun's atmosphere. 

Friction is obstruction which, as already shown, 
develops heat. Two pieces of wood may be ignited by 
rubbing them together, and a rod of iron may be heated 
to redness by impacts from a hammer. Devoid of his 
title, John HerscheFs opinion would not have been 
esteemed of much importance, nor given prominence in 
scientific books. Genius is worth infinitely more than 
title, as character is more than reputation ; but the lat- 
ter attracts more attention and secures more patronage 
than all the others combined. 



76 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 

Kays emitted from the moon do not reach our atmos- 
phere in sufficient quantity to produce light, nor prob- 
ably do many rays from the earth reach the sun's atmos- 
phere. Kays between planets interblend; but no rays 
emitted from any planet or satellite ever penetrate the 
atmosphere of its parent with any considerable effect. 

The star Sirius is many times larger than our sun; 
and, if it be our supersolar center, then our solar center 
never sheds its light thereon ; and if Sirius be inhabited, 
our sun appears there as the earth appears to inhabit- 
ants on the sun, and as the moon appears to us — merely 
a light-reflecting luminary. 

Earth is as really a ball of fire as is the sun. Their 
form and formation are similar, as there is a similarity 
among all the spheres. These are infinitely diversified, 
however, as trees in a forest are infinitely diversified, 
although bearing a strong resemblance in their general 
appearance. Unity in diversity is the rule of Nature. 
It is true of trees and of human beings; and it is true 
of worlds. 

It is highly probable, and scarcely possible to doubt, 
that all the higher beings are of one general form with- 
out exact sameness. Especially should this view be 
accepted by those who believe that we are created in 
the image and likeness of God. If God be the pattern 
and parent, how can His copies or imitations widely 
differ one from another? 

We sometimes desire to visit other stars. If we study 
our own star we shall have a general idea of all. Dif- 
ferent countries on our planet, although not alike, have 
resemblances. Until we have seen the beauties of our 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 77 

own, we should not long to visit other stars. It is quite 
possible that ours excels them all in attractions. Per- 
haps it has been selected by the Creator for His most 
wonderful manifestations — at least for a great period. 

Space, the prime factor — the essential precedent in 
existence — is absolutely and unalterably one. (P. 29.) 
Matter, the cohered succeedent of space, its antithesis 
in all properties and characteristics — its absolute coun- 
terpart — is, in its primal condition, also an invariable 
unity. Its varyings afford infinite diversification, which 
increases with organization from simple to complex 
forms or shapes. The more highly organized, the more 
complex the formation; yet, throughout all changes, 
types remain while variety multiplies along the ascend- 
ing scale. 

Luminiferous ether is probably one and invariable. 
Diversification is manifest even in the gases. Air is 
more composite; and water is still more a subject of 
composition and variation, for it holds the various other 
substances in solution and in greater quantity than air 
does. 

As we pass from liquids into solids the tendency to 
conglomeration increases. Crystallized forms are more 
the subjects of variegation than is water; and other 
forms of earthy matter are less pure or simple than 
crystals. This is due to the purifying process of crystal- 
ization, each form and quality of matter selecting its 
kind for association. The tendency increases as we pass 
into the vegetable and on to the animal ; while the socie- 
tary world is vastly more variegated and variable than 
the merely animal. 



78 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

As worlds — the stars — are near the primary stage, 
being early in the scale of material existences, it con- 
clusively follows that uniformity of type is more char- 
acteristic of them than of the later and higher develop- 
ments. Evidently all of them are spheres, and probably 
each is a type of all. If each human being is (in general 
shape) a type of all human beings, and every tree is 
a type of all trees, it is rational to conclude that, in 
general form, our world is representative of all the 
worlds. As other moons in sight are similar in appear- 
ance to our moon, and other planets bear a resemblance 
to our planet, it is a reasonable inference that other suns 
are nearly like our sun in shape and composition. 

Stars, being nearer the genesis of creation, are less 
differentiated than the more advanced orders of exist- 
ence that inhabit them. Not one of them is or ever was 
a fire-ball or a blazing-star. They are hollow spheres, 
the great interior cavities of which, when in advanced 
stages of development, communicate with open space 
through polar vents. A description of the earth con- 
veys a general idea of all as to shape and composition. 

As the anatomy of one man affords a general idea of 
all human anatomy ; and as North America gives a gen- 
eral idea of all continents, so the anatomy and physi- 
ology of our world furnishes a general idea of others. 
Seas and shores, mountains and plains, rocks and rivers, 
etc., etc., make up a continent. They all differ in details 
but have a general similarity. Oceans are similar, lakes 
are similar and rivers are similar ; yet no two are alike. 
When we see one we see a type of its kind throughout 
the world. We can even sit in our own homes and 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. HJ 

obtain an idea of scenery and its especial features 
throughout the world by means of maps, photographs 
and other pictures. We need not spend money or time 
to travel in order to appease our curiosity. 

In other worlds mountains, rivers and oceans have a 
likeness to ours. Why have a desire to see them, when 
a complete variety is here ? Our earth, as a type, affords 
us an approximate idea of the physical universe, and, 
so far as we know, affords all the essential elements of a 
heaven, although it may not be the Heaven, Yet we 
do not know but this may be the chosen world. 

Universe means unity in diversity, or diversified 
unity. It is the university of Nature. One grain of 
sand gives an approximate idea of all sands. This world 
and its external relations are enough to study in order 
to have a comprehensive idea of all other spheres and 
their external relations — one to all the rest. They all 
float in the great ocean of ether somewhat as a toy-bal- 
loon or a soap-bubble floats in air. 

Worlds cannot fall except when satellites collide 
against planets, for there is no up and down to space. 
Direction relates only to bodies in question when we use 
terms expressive of any course taken. Down is towards, 
and up is away from, any sun, planet, or satellite. 

When the momentum of a meteor is greater than the 
repulsion of a planet the latter is overcome and the two 
bodies meet with a velocity which produces the effects 
we observe when such an event occurs at night. Our 
globe, moving at the rate of 1,000 miles per minute, over- 
taking or overtaken by a meteorite, or crossing its 
course, the meteorite meets with enough resistance in 



80 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

our atmosphere to evolve heat sufficient for an explosion. 
They are driven together instead of being drawn, as 
our teachers tell us. 

Countless millions of meteorites, formed in the same 
general way, although infinite in variety of particular 
shape and size, are constantly moving through space as 
bullets fly thickly through the air in time of a great 
battle. If between contending armies an immense 
boulder should swiftly pass it would quite likely be hit 
by a few bullets or cannon balls. So, as we swiftly move 
through space, we occasionally cross the path of one of 
these meteoric rocks ; and less frequently, perhaps once 
a year, we pass through a stream of millions of meteors ; 
and a few, under this high speed, come within Earth's 
aura and, yielding to the interference with its environ- 
ing energy (momentum overcoming resistance), are 
precipitated or fall with great velocity and such effects 
as are often seen. 

In a similar way, at widely distant periods of time, 
satellites may have collided with planets other than 
their own, but not within our telescopic times when 
observations are being taken. It is not supposable, how- 
ever, that such collisions ever have occurred, or pre- 
dictable that they ever will occur, for the distances 
between any of the larger bodies are so vast, and the 
repellant energy of each is so great, it is not likely 
that any one of them ever passes closely within the 
magnetic screen of another and larger sphere, whereby 
their precipitation is likely and their existence endan- 
gered. 

The distance traveled in a given period by the peripbh 



COSMONICS 01" WORLDS AND FORCES. 81 

ery of any spherical body in its rotation does not 
essentially determine or proportionally influence its 
centrifugal force. This is augmented or diminished 
according to the number of rotations on its own axis 
within a given time. Speed of motion is an important 
factor in centrifugal tendency, but the degree of sur- 
face curvature is equally so. Vastly greater momentum 
can be endured without corresponding tangential force 
on a long curve or extended circle than on a short curve 
or small circle under the same rate of peripheral speed. 
Tangential tendency is very great on a small sphere or 
circle under a high rate of peripheral speed; but very 
little on a large one at the same speed, because the 
larger the sphere or circle, the more nearly does its 
periphery approach a level plane or straight line. 

Size of sphere or length of curve is one factor, speed 
of motion is another, while a third one consists in the 
application of revolving force at either the axis or at 
the periphery. If a body be turned by force applied on 
the periphery, there may be no centrifugal tendency, 
while this might be very great if the same force w r ere 
applied at the center. 

As the earth is turned by force acting on the surface 
(p. 82), any tendency of its particles or objects to fly off 
is thereby counteracted or overcome. The surface or 
circle being large, the turn is not short enough, 
under its rate of speed, for much tangential tendency; 
at most, not enough to equal the downward or inward 
influence, even were the turning force applied at the 
center instead of at the surface. This is not presuming 



82 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

such an application to be possible with reference to the 
earth. It is only suppositious. 

The turning force applied or exerted on the periph- 
ery of the earth, is inward or centripetal in its tend- 
ency, so that the greater the turning force, and conse- 
quently the greater the motion, the greater also is the 
gravital, and the less the tangential tendency or centrif- 
ugal force. In other words, the centrifugal is resisted 
and overcome by the action from all directions converg- 
ing on the earth. 

For a proper estimate it is important that we observe 
the difference of speed between points at or near the 
poles and those on the equatorial belt. The great circle 
at the equator travels a long distance in a single turn 
of the globe; and hence is under a high rate of speed 
as compared with smaller circles near the poles and 
along the entire polar axis. They revolve in the same 
time, but the difference in distance traveled is very 
great. At the equator the speed is greatest — about 1,000 
miles an hour — while at the polar axis it is nil. Near 
the axis a circle of 25 miles requires as much time in 
turning as the great one of 25,000 miles. Because of 
the difference of surface motion at the equator and near 
the poles, and also the variation in curvature of the 
circles, it is impossible to calculate the variance, if there 
be any, of their tangential tendency, or centrifugal 
action. "Were there sufficient centrifugal tendency to 
affect weight would not a man be vastly heavier at the 
poles where there is little or no motion than at the 
equator where there is the greatest? 

"Let anyone enter a deep mine or go through a tun- 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 83 

nel under a high mountain. He will find all objects, 
even his own body, weighing less on a delicate spring 
balance, than if weighed above ground;* and this 
decrease extends to the center of the earth/' 

— J. H. Kedzie, on Gravitation, p. 159. 
The statement that "this decrease extends to the cen- 
ter of the earth" is mere guesswork and without any 
more authority than conjecture from anyone else, and 
with less of logical inference than counter theories given 
herein. 

* This is due to the intercepting of the downward force 
by the screen of earth above him; not to any diminishing 
of attraction by approach towards the center of the earth. 
Remove the screen and weight would increase towards the 
center because of greater convergence of inward rays — 
an intensifying action — and a greater divergence of out- 
ward rays — and extensifying or dispersive action. The 
former is an increasing or strengthening potency; the lat- 
ter a lessening or a weakening process, i. e., a diminishing 
potency. The nearer a center or focus, without an inter- 
cepting screen above, the greater the weight; but the 
greater or thicker the intercepting screen the less the 
weight. Because of a closer parallelism of rays giving 
stronger outward and weaker inward action on the surface 
of the sun, weight of bodies is there less than on the sur- 
face of the earth (contrary to the teachings under "scien- 
tific" auspices in our schools of learning), if we end the 
solution here; but the sun's diameter is great and is pro- 
portionately an obstructive screen to force-rays transmitted 
from the opposite side. This offsets in some degree the 
greater outward effect of parallel rays from the surface. 
There is no pretense here that all the factors are taken 
into account. The discussion would be too lengthy and 
elaborate. 



84 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

Again, Mr. Keclzie says, on p. 160 : "A given amount 
of motion has been injected into Nature, which may 
change in form, or change its subject, but remains for- 
ever in action without increase or diminution/' This 
assertion is uncontradictable as it is unprovable. If a 
given amount of motion has been "injected into 
Nature/' there must have been an injector and a period 
of existence or time when the injection was effected, 
unless the injecting process is continually and forever 
going on. From this it is to be inferred also that prior 
to such injection matter must have been in a state of 
rest. This inference is naturally followed by a query 
concerning the general condition of affairs before mat- 
ter was made a subject of motion. Had it always been 
at rest? or was there, away back in the infinite ages, 
a period, without beginning, when there was no matter 
— no visible forms — only . space and spirit — only space 
and incomprehensible intelligence — God? How far 
back was matter created and of what substance was it 
made? Spirit? Then whence came spirit? If there 
was no beginning to space or spirit, then why to matter ? 

He who does not believe in God, whom he cannot com- 
prehend, is inconsistent if he believes in himself, whom 
he cannot comprehend. Any man cannot comprehend 
his own existence nor the existence of another man. He 
cannot comprehend his own beginning or his ending. 
Then how can he comprehend God? 

Without asserting, is it not more rational to 
BELIEVE that motion is inherent in the constitution 
of matter, and that matter is the cohered succeedent 
of space — that as motion is positive and rest is negative, 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 85 

and as the positive theory of existence is preferable to 
the negative theory, so motion is without any injecting 
operation or process? It is normal to matter. 

Gravitation is to us an unsolved problem, unless we 
change from theXEGATIVE to the POSITIVE theory, 
which, from every point of our present view, appears to 
be the rational one. "ATTRACTION OF GRAVITA- 
TION" is a name given to supposed negative action, 
and is untenable on any basis of argument, although 
long taught in our schools as the true theory, authen- 
ticated by Sir Isaac Newton. 

The observed effects which gave rise to this theory 
and its name, are a result of energy inherent in matter; 
not injected into it — and emanating therefrom as force, 
with positive effect in every direction on all environing 
bodies or substances. 

Luminiferous ether, when regarded as matter, may 
perhaps be considered an exception to the rule here 
stated. It is probably the medium of action, through 
which force is propagated or transmitted. It may also 
be a source; perhaps the real source of energy; but 
more likely the great middle agent between the finer 
substance called spirit and the coarser substance known 
as matter. Its nature and the nature of all above it 
are unknown and uncomprehended by man except by 
analogy and inference. If any knowledge comes by 
inspiration higher than these it must accord with true 
reason. From so much of all these, as we may, let us 
express the following conclusions, using the term mag- 
netism as a synonym for energy radiated as force. 



86 cosmonics of worlds and forces. 

Magnetism is radiated from all matter at right 
angles to surfaces whence it departs; is propa- 
gated ix straight lixes by uxdulatory ixstead of 
traxslatory motion, axd is partially intercepted, 
retarded or impeded ix its progress by all bodies, 
while it passes through them as readily as air 
passes through a sieve or a forest. 

In such passage the MOLECULAR IMPACT PUSHES 
THE IMPEDING SUN, PLANET, SATELLITE OR OTHER BODY 
IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MAGXETIC RAY'S COURSE. 
THEREBY AXY TWO BODIES OBSTRUCTING SUCH FORCE 
ARE IMPELLED IN THE DIRECTION OF EACH OTHER WITH 
A POWER PROPORTIONED TO THE PRODUCT OF THEIR 
MASSES DIVIDED BY THE SQUARE OF THEIR DISTANCE 
APART. 

They would quickly meet but for the counteracting 
repellant force emanating from them, which tends to 
drive them apart. All action of bodies is from them- 
selves outward, whether it be of suns, planets or satel- 
lites; and when bodies fall onto any one of them it is 
because of intercepted rays, coming through the planet 
or other celestial body, being so weakened thereby as not 
sufficiently to counteract momentum and repel the fall- 
ing body, which moves in the direction of least resist- 
ance. The unimpeded force above it is greater than the 
intercepted force below. This is advanced as a primal 
and conclusive truth concerning that force which we 
denominate gravity, whether it be of planets towards 
their suns, or of bodies falling to the earth. 

Floating in highly attenuated ether, our planet, like 
every other star, is held intact and moved in its orbit 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 87 

while being turned on its axis by external force, acting 
together with what proceeds from within. It is con- 
stantly "in the push." It is held and moved by repul- 
sion instead of by attraction. 

Coherence is not explained as a property of matter. 
Tenacity cannot be understood on any theory of attrac- 
tion as now taught. It is yet a mystery. When a stone 
or any form of mineral or other matter is broken the 
pieces may be pressed together as closely as before; yet 
there will not be any sign of cohesion. The strength of 
linen thread or the elasticity of india rubber is not 
explained on the hypothesis of attraction. Inability to 
explain everything does not invalidate a hypothesis nor 
belittle either an old or a new theory concerning 
Nature's existence and operations. 

Positive energy — push, not pull — holds planets apart 
from their suns and one from another, and keeps 
them from flying off on tangents beyond orbits pre- 
scribed by the great law of magnetic equilibrium. The 
pressure on all sides of each body is nearly the same, 
but is constantly varying. The excess of pressure on 
any body causes its change of position, and excess of 
pressure on any of its parts causes its change of presen- 
tation, or of its attitude respecting its governing center, 
as of Moon respecting Earth, Earth respecting Sun, 
and Sun respecting the super-solar center, and so on. 

Earth and Sun are pushed apart until the repelling 
force between them is less (because of their distance 
apart) than that which, on opposite sides, is pushing 
them towards each other. It is not possible for them 
to approach or depart beyond their mutual safety, and 



88 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

under the same form of influences two planets cannot 
collide. When too near their magnetic spheres keep 
them apart. They are easily swerved, for in the ocean 
of ether they float so freely that an ounce of excess on 
one side will move a planet. In this constant and per- 
petual happy medium of ether equated energy is ever 
sought, but never found, by either planets or atoms. 
Hence both and all are constantly in motion. 

Energy is everywhere and abundant. The secret of 
directing it will solve the great problem of expenseless 
force in mechanical power. Instead of working to over- 
come Xature it needs only that we place ourselves in 
harmony with it. Give her a chance and she will do 
our work for us, obviating all semblance of drudgery. 
When invention shall have been completed we shall have 
to only "push the button:' Men are mentally in error 
on this matter, and must reverse their mechanical, as 
well as their natural, philosophy to find what they want. 
That we now push a button instead of pull a knob at 
the door is an indication of the reversed processes into 
which we are passing. 

Sun and Earth depart and approach, oscillating 
within a range of distance determined by opposing 
impulsions. So it is with Earth and Moon, and with 
other spheres. Each body revolves in the direction 
determined by the motion of its chief, as any cog-wheel 
is turned by the motion of another which governs it. 
The magnetic ravs from both Sun and Earth blend and 
interlace, causing the latter to be turned by the former, 
which exerts a dominant force, determining the direc- 
tion of earth's rotation. The earth's orbital movement 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AK T D FORCES. 89 

is really with the sun's axial motion, although rela- 
tively in the opposite direction, as the moon moves with 
Earth's rotation but falls behind, and thus has an 
apparently opposite motion — that is, while the earth 
moves as a mass along with the sun's rotation, its more 
distant or outer portion is turning (if it be turning at 
all) in the opposite course, and all the while the entire 
planet is falling behind, so that the sun turns many 
times on its axis, while the earth completes one orbital 
circuit.* Eelatively, therefore, the earth goes around 
the sun many times in one year, because it is many 
times opposite every point on the sun's equator. 

Every point in space is a focus of energy, and every 
body or object in space occupies a center of energy. So 
all force, the emanation of energy, is everywhere 
opposed; and all motion is the result of dominance; as 
a piston moves in a cylinder of steam because the pres- 
sure on one side is greater than on the other. All force 
is relative, proportionate and comparative, as well as 
positive. It is never absolute, as a vacuum is never per- 
fect, only partial. 

* The earth turns and, while turning, is carried along 
with the sun somewhat as an antifriction roller is revolved 
by a turning axle. It moves around the axle and along 
with it, but not so fast. It rolls on the inner side of the 
surrounding encasement so that its axis of motion is on its 
outer side in contact with the said encasement as the axis 
of a wagon wheel's motion is on the ground at the point 
of contact. The earth's axis of motion may be several 
miles beyond the earth, out in the environing ether oppo- 
site from the side shone on by the sun; so that the earth's 
axis of motion is always on the dark side. (See page 69.) 



90 COSMOXK'S OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

A well regulated engine in the care of a competent 
engineer is easily controlled. The piston disc is easily 
held at any point in the cylinder by one who knows how 
to equalize the pressure. Steam acts under the same 
law that governs all forms of matter in its motions. 
Heat agitates water, giving its molecules greater motion 
and so requiring more space for their increased range, 
in proportion to the intensity of heat and consequent 
extent or degree of rarefaction. When the heat is 
intense, water is highly rarefied into very light steam 
requiring more extended room for its range of molecular 
motion and hence exerting greater power than heavier 
or denser steam. When in open space, it floats as thin 
clouds high in air until dispersed as invisible vapor or 
condensed into falling drops. When less heated and 
consequently less rarefied, those clouds occupy less of 
space and, being heavier, they require denser air to sup- 
port them and they come nearer to the earth. When 
thin and light, force rays easily pass through them and 
the air in which they float. When heavy, these rays are 
more obstructed and so push them downward. When 
condensed into drops the force rays push them quickly 
to earth in the form of rain. 

Under the same law sap circulates in trees. As vapor 
it rises through the delicate pores of the sap-wood and, 
when carbonized in the leaves, falls in a circular sheet 
of liquid around the tree within the bark, where its 
watery portion evaporates, leaving a thickened layer 
which hardens into fiber; and another grain of wood 
indicates another year of tree growth. The fiber is 
lengthwise in the direction of the sap's flow. 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 91 

Action upward from the roots is through the porous 
wood in direct contact with the fluid, more direct and 
less obstructed, therefore more effective, because the 
form of the tree permits it ; while the shape of the tree 
with its boughs and leaves, acts as a shield or screen 
against the downward force until the liquid is on the 
outside of the wood where downward vibrations reach 
it through the more porous bark and attack it in con- 
densed form, pushing it earthward. This process is varied 
in the palms and some tropical hard woods. 

The problem of polarity in plant ascension, descension 
and expansion may not be satisfactorily solved on 
the plan here elucidated ; but it is as easily explained on 
the positive as on the negative theory. It is easy to see 
why plants ascend against a push downward as against 
attraction. If roots descend by the earth's attraction, 
why does the uppergrowih ascend against it? Plant 
growth may always remain among the inexplicable phen- 
omena of Nature without interfering with any theory 
here advanced. What is here said concerning it, is open 
to criticism and calls for correction if in anywise w r rong. 

As stated elsewhere herein, and against accepted scien- 
tific belief, energy augments with aggregations or con- 
densation of matter and lessens with matter's expansion 
or dispersion. Expansion liberates force and condensa- 
tion accumulates it. Diminution in bulk, mass, or space, 
is a positive potency; and expansion or dispersion may 
be called a negative potency, considered intrinsically; 
although extrinsically the opposite is true ; i. e., positive 
causes produce negative conditions and negative condi- 
tions are followed by positive results. 



92 COSMONICS OF WORLDS A5TD FORCES. 

Convergence as a process indicates cogency or 
strength. Divergence or dispersion as a process indi- 
cates weakness. So, also, but variantly, as before men- 
tioned, approach represents augmentation and strength 
while departure indicates diminution or weakness. For 
example, note that any object in sight at a distance can 
be discerned as receding or approaching by the dimin- 
ishing or increasing effects on our visual organs; and 
an unseen train of cars or a band of musicians proclaims 
to our ears its approach or departure in the waxing or 
waning of sound waves indicated by louder or fainter 
noise, detected at any moment as the quickened or slack- 
ened sound vibrations impinge with intensifying or 
lessening effect on the listener. These vibrations on 
organs of sight or sound at any instant of time are 
greater or less as they approach or depart, although our 
physical senses are often so obtuse that some seconds 
are necessary to detect the action when distances are 
great, because the greater the distance the weaker the 
vibratory impact. According as they are increasing or 
diminishing they are positive or negative relative poten- 
cies although in reality they all are positive. That is: 
Their effects are produced by the same kind of motions 
but relatively they differ; as a stream of water is posi- 
tive or negative in its relation to any person or object 
on its bank. All the water up-stream is approaching the 
object while all the water down-stream is departing — 
flowing away from — the person or object. The water 
above is positive while the water below is negative in 
relation to any object on the bank ; although, as a whole, 
it is alike — flowing in the same direction — and therefore 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 93 

positive. All the water below a dam is flowing away 
from it and is negative to the dam and all above it, but 
it has no pull on the dam. If the dam gives way it is 
under the action of water above it — a positive action. 

As every body in space is or occupies a center of 
energy, all inward or downward action is focalizing, 
concentrative and intense; while the emanating — the 
outward or upward — rays, as from the earth, are dif- 
fusing, dispersive and weak in their tendency, as com- 
pared with counteracting or inward rays. Hence if all 
else were equal, the downward or inward action would 
be the dominant one, and weight would result to even a 
greater extent than it now does, were it not for the influ- 
ence of other factors which must be taken into account. 
The centripetal action or vibration downward, is par- 
tially counteracted by vibratory action directly upward 
from the earth ; and this action is augmented by centri- 
petal rays from the opposite side, which have been 
retarded and weakened in their passage through the 
earth, as air is retarded by passing through a sieve or a 
veil. This action, centripetal on entering the earth, 
becomes centrifugal on its passage to the opposite side. 

The importance of this truth warrants a repetition. 
Were this passage through the earth free and unre- 
strained, the action, both outward and inward, at every 
point on the surface of the earth would be 
equal, but for the difference in dispersive and 
concentrative action alluded to and from other 
causes given above; unless other factors not 
mentioned, influence results (which is quite pos- 
sible and may hereafter be noticed). Were this force. 



94 C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

in passing through the earth, not retarded nor changed 
from concentrative into dispersive action, the downward 
or inward force would be so extensively overcome that 
no sun, planet or satellite could exist and no force could 
be generated from any body of matter, nor would there 
be any such body. Xow, the downward force overcomes 
all others by just the excess indicated by weight, hold- 
ing bodies against or on the earth. 

Bodies on the earth are heavy or light according as 
they are permeated hardly or easily by the magnetic 
rays, w r hich pass easily through porous matter but with 
difficulty through that which is dense, such as lead, gold 
or quicksilver. The more obstruction the greater weight. 

When an apple fell from a tree, striking Newton on 
the head and starting a system of thought vibrations, 
it was in keeping with his age of civilization to think 
astray from truth. His environment was a cloud of 
error too dense for the permeation of undistorted rays. 
Their obstruction developed fervency of thought which 
but partially dispelled the darkness of his time and made 
things appear the opposite of what they really were. 
His mathematics was accurate but his philosophy was 
erroneous ; following the lines of religious teachings full 
of superstitions and imaginations. When wrongly 
schooled on any subject people become delusionary and 
unfit for impartial judgment. The general effect of 
error is to bias intellect, preventing intelligent action 
and rendering it unreceptive of clear light from any 
true direction. Medical practitioners, losing their 
patients by thousands, hold silence as to the cause and 
even the fact: while they are quick to herald a single 



C0SM0XICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 95 

failure in any reform system of treatment; and many 
professional scientists appear to rejoice at any failure 
or discouragement met by an inventor or a student who 
promises to evolve some new theory or make an improve- 
ment which contradicts what is now in their text-books. 
Professed lovers of truth are among the first persecu- 
tors of those who teach rational truth. 

The following questions are likely to be asked: If 
spacial force downward causes weight, why is not an 
object heavier when its broad surface is presented for 
attack than when it receives the force on an edge or 
narrow surface? The answer is: Force, producing 
weight, acts according to mass of matter instead of 
according to surface presented. It passes through the 
mass attacking the molecules and atoms just as it passes 
through the earth; being impeded in both cases. It is 
this impediment which causes weight according to the 
character of the substance. The more compact it is, 
i. e., the more numerous the molecules and atoms in a 
given bulk, the greater the number of vibro-atomic im- 
pacts; and hence the more of resistance and weight. It 
is the same whether the transmission be flatwise, edge- 
wise, endwise or cornerwise; the mass impacted is the 
same. 

So in the case of differential columns of liquid. The 
whole mass is attacked in both columns which rise 
equally to the same line, grade or degree of downward 
pressure and, under the cosmonic law of Nature's ten- 
dency and effort for an equilibrium, they come to and 
stop at the same level. 

A body falling, under vibro-atomic resistance, is 



1)6 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

impeded by atmosphero-surface resistance in degree 
according to speed of movement. Under a given velocity 
if it falls flatwise, the resistance is greater than if it fall 
edgewise, although static weight is the same. Liquids 
also resist by surface action. 

Cynics may ask : How do you get over the difficulty 
of accounting for centrifugal force failing to throw off 
objects from the earth, or of the earth being thrown 
into fragments by high rotation of 1,000 miles an hour? 
We do not try to get over a difficulty which does not 
exist. Although fully answered on page 82, it is of 
so much importance that we give the answer again here. 

The same impact inw T ard or downward producing 
weight, constitutes pressure and holds the earth with its 
occupants together. This enormous pressure from 
without would be ample even if the tendency to fly off 
on a tangent were very great, which it is not. A thou- 
sand miles an hour of surface rotation on a small sphere 
30 or 300 miles in diameter would be terrific; but, as 
already shown, the larger a sphere, the more does its 
surface approach a level plane ; and as the earth is large 
enough to have an approximately level surface, as com- 
pared with a small sphere, the tendency to fly off is very 
slight. 

A sphere 300 miles in diameter is nearly 1,000 miles 
in circumference. On a sphere or circle of this size a 
movement of 1,000 miles in 24 hours would not be sub- 
jected to very much tangential tendency or centrifugal 
force. The turn is not short enough. If a railway from 
Chicago to New York were bent into a circle, a train of 
cars could move around on it in 24 hours without anv 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 97 

perceptible tendency to leave so large a curve, or "jump 
the track." Xow, the curve of our planet is larger by 
25 times that length; and our movement along with it 
so nearly that of moving with a level plane, that even 
1,000 miles an hour does not subject us to great centrif- 
ugal tendency. It is well nigh at a minimum; and is 
nil at the poles where the circle contracts to a point, 
yet occupies the entire time of 24 hours to complete one 
rotation. There the movement is not so rapid as the 
hour hand on a clock. Both circles and speeds increase 
as they are farther from the poles; rapidly at first but 
more slowly as the equator is approached, on account of 
longitudinal curvature which diminishes the increase 
of circle-size until at the equator where this increase 
ends. 

On the equatorial belt is the greatest speed but least 
curvature; and as the latter counteracts the effect of 
the former it must be seen that the increase of tangency 
is not in proportion to speed motion — perhaps not at 
all. Centrifugal force is not indicated by distance 
traveled on the periphery of a circle, but by the 
number of revolutions of the mass within a given time. 
Besides, as before shown, our planet is rotated by action 
on the surface, and not by projectile energy at the cen- 
ter. The turning force is contractile and therefore cen- 
tripetal in its tendency, instead of centrifugal; and on 
the equator where there is the greatest motion, we have, 
not only the most extended curve, affording the least 
tangency, but also the largest area of attack and longest 
leverage combined with greatest positive downward 
action or push from the sun which exerts the turning 



98 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

force. Here, it is direct ; and, although enough to keep 
the globe whirling, it is only a small portion of the all- 
force acting on the entire surface of our planet, the 
motion of which is greatest on the surface towards the 
sun where the most action takes place in just the pro- 
portion required; and with diminishing tendency 
towards the poles, at w T hich both turning force and 
inward action, from the sun, almost cease. 

Spacial force, aside from the sun's action, may be 
the same on the frigid zones as within the equatorial 
belt ; but the sun faces the latter while it only flanks the 
former, except as its rays are deflected by the lens of 
earth's envelope. Hence where there is the greatest 
peripheral motion there is also the strongest inward or 
downward action. The importance of this "gravity" 
subject warrants the above elaboration, and admits of 
even more than can be afforded at this time, as that 
would be a departure from our aim at simplicity and 
brevity. 

In view of this cosmonic theory of energy, it is 
easy to show how the earth remains in its orbit instead 
of either being thrown off on a tangent or falling into 
the sun. In a circle 185,000,000 miles in diameter, we 
may travel 1,500,000 miles in a day without being pro- 
jected into space beyond our orbit; for, occupying a 
whole year in completing so large a circle, accomplishes 
it without any more tendency to leave the orbit than 
moving one mile a day within 50 miles of the center of 
the sun, or around a circle 100 miles in diameter. 

But this fact is of small importance, as is a similar 
one in reference to the earth's axial motion; for, as we 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 99 

are held on the earth by a downward, inward or centri- 
petal force acting from above, so is the earth held from 
leaving the sun by the same force acting through infinite 
space, dominating towards the sun, in excess of what 
proceeds from the sun and all beyond; for that which 
comes from beyond the sun is obstructed by the sun 
which acts as a screen to the earth which would be 
quickly driven to the sun, but for the sun's repellant rays 
which hold all planets off at proper distances; the 
planets themselves furnishing also a share of the repell- 
ing rays, as already shown. These radiations from Sun 
and Earth, acting against each other, hold the twT> orbs 
apart at a proper distance and, at their line of equil- 
ibrium, furnish a bed of motion on which the smaller 
star moves, rolling around the larger one. As they 
approach, the resistance becomes greater and as they 
depart it becomes less, and the opposing force drives it 
back to its normal position, or distance, in the orbit. 

Thus we see that it is impossible for the earth to fall 
into the sun, or ever come so near as to be "scorched ;" 
and also impossible to be driven off into space to a freez- 
ing distance. It is all right in this regard, and will 
so remain for many millions of years. Eventually, 
however, an important change will have taken place. 
But of this further on. (P. 106.) 

The same force under the same law which holds the 
earth in its orbit, keeps the moon within proper dis- 
tance while preventing her from coming near enough 
to "kiss us for our mother" Earth. Our love-making 
moon continually flirts with us because of the interfer- 
ences always at work. (Fig. A.) 

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100 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

The magnetic radiations from both Earth and Moon 
meet, and so repel the two planets. This alone, would 
not perceptibly withstand the infinitely greater push 
driving them towards each other. The latter force acts 
also between the two after passing through them and 
being impeded and weakened thereby ; and this diminu- 
tion is fully made up and supplemented by their mutual 
repellency while they remain 240,000 miles apart. At 
any greater distance these repellant radiations would 
be too slight, and the two spheres would be driven 
towards each other. In other words — words of romance 
— at greater distance they do not observe each other's 
defects, and they try to meet; but only distance lends 
enchantment. Even swains and maidens would not be 
so enamored of the moon if privileged with a closer 
inspection. The moon is credited w r ith great attractions 
when, like many other objects, she possesses few, if any. 
The force which brings her near, and also that which 
keeps her away, is positive and repellant. 

To the moon's attraction is attributed Earth's heaving 
bosom — her "tide-y" action. Like other dogmas this 
one is easier to accept than to dispute; and so long as 
people are willing to pay for learning errors, they will 
find plenty of erroneous teaching. Yet errors are often 
of some use. Frequently they are thresholds to the 
temple of truth. We have to tread them under foot, 
however, if we would enter at the true door and within 
the veil. 

The absurd idea, so long taught, that the moon, 240,- 
000 miles away, pulls the water up into a tide against 
the stronger "attraction'' of the much larger earth which 



COSMtmCS OF WORLDS AffD FORCES. 101 

is in direct and complete contact with the same water 
and "pulling" in the opposite direction is not worthy of 
argument ; but, for the injury always done by erroneous 
belief, we pay some attention to it here. This "pull" or 
attraction by the moon, Sir Isaac Newton is represented 
as having ascertained (or estimated) to be somewhat less 
than one twelve-millionth (1-12,000,000) part of the 
Earth's own attraction; yet the present popular theory 
of gravitation requires us to believe that one unit of 
attraction, pulling the waters of Earth towards the 
moon, actually lifts these waters in direct opposition to 
twelve million equal units pulling them downwards — 
towards Earth's center ! It must be admitted that the 
two actions are in direct opposition; for the moon, and 
the earth's center,, are always in direct line with some 
point on the earth's surface. 

The moon-tide theory, therefore, as taught in schools 
and accepted by sailors and others, leaves us no alterna- 
tive but the belief that in this tidal tug of war, one force- 
unit really overcomes to that extent, twelve millions of 
equal units acting in the opposite direction! What a 
comment on our boasted educational systems, and on 
our astronomical calculations founded in such mathe- 
matical absurdities as if they were facts ! 

If, as is also taught, the Earth's interior be a molten 
mass, tides must also therein be produced under the 
same influence; with results which we leave to conjec- 
ture. 

It is easier to overthrow than to build up — easier to 
disprove a false theory than establish a true one; and, 
since the tides have been so extravagantly and so gen- 



102 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

erally accounted for, it may not be entirely safe, in our 
present stage of knowledge, to lay down a theory on any 
line and call it established. If, however, what we have 
said about THE GEEAT LAW of energy, force, power 
and motion, be rational and logical, it may be in place 
here to apply, even if crudely, the same principles to so 
important a phenomenon as the tides. 

Every honest man, if not a dogmatic slave, seeks for 
truth, instead of arguments by which to bolster up a 
creed. The author of this book believes in what he 
writes ; but is at all times anxious to abandon his belief 
in favor of a better one; and he will feel well paid for 
his efforts if they stimulate inquiry and investigation 
which will or may, eventuate in the absolute — the truth. 

Our planet being a focus of infinite energy acting in 
force from all directions, and in turn being a source of 
energy sending out its forces every way — the former 
tending inward or downward producing weight called 
gravitation, and the latter acting outward as buoyancy or 
levitation, which also is aided by the former transmitted 
from the opposite side through the earth — it follows 
that all objects move to and from the earth according 
as the inward or outward force dominates one over the 
other. 

Force from all surrounding space acting on the small 
surface of our globe is highly concentrative and intense ; 
while that acting outwardly from the same small sphere 
is in a similar degree radiative or dispersive and there- 
fore comparatively weak. If they were equal in all 
mathematical estimates as to number of rays, rapidity 
of movement and all respects that imply force quantity. 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 103 

the difference between a concentrative and a dispersive 
action might account for all that we include under the 
term weight. Now, it should be borne in mind that the 
application of this great law of energy and its action, 
to account for tides, calls for arguments which are sug- 
gestive rather than assertive; and that the way is open 
for hints which are not here mentioned. 

The moon acting as a screen, obstructs the passage of 
the downward or incoming force, restraining it suffi- 
ciently to effect some difference on that side of the 
earth; giving to the force radiating from the earth a 
possible advantage which might elevate the ocean several 
feet in that direction. Under the law of polarity the 
antipodal tide may be accounted for on this as easily 
as on the attraction theory. 

Another possible factor already alluded to but which 
cannot be positively declared, may influence tidal action. 
By refraction a sphere may so change the intensity of 
the passing force as to alter the effect ; as a globule of 
water so alters the direction of light rays that objects 
seen through it appear magnified. The earth and moon 
by their spherical form, therefore, may so alter trans- 
mitted force-rays that the resultant effect is very dif- 
ferent from what it would be in passing through objects 
having plane or flat surfaces.* 

* There is no reasonable doubt that beyond all measure 
of comprehension or estimate, the entire universe at every 
point abounds with energy either active or latent, and 
always ready to supply suns and satellites in whatever 
form is needed. So facile, so forcible, transmutive and 
effective is this energy that any description or even con- 
ception of its wonderful potency is impossible. 



104 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

A pane of glass will so refract sun-rays as to intensify 
heat on the inside of a window. When diverging rays 
hit the outer surface they are bent inward so as to pass 
directly through. On the inside they concentrate, pro- 
ducing greater heat than if the glass were not there. 
Even a flat glass, therefore, is partially a sun-glass. If 
it were convex outward its concentrating properties 
would be stronger. We may infer therefore that the 
lens of air around the earth has concentrating qualities. 

The theory that concentrative action is more cogent 
than dispersive action at the same degree of deviation 
or angle, inevitably leads to the conclusion that, on small 
or abruptly curved peripheries, where dispersion is 
greatest, concentration or focalization is also greatest. 
Therefore where outward or upward action is weaker, 
inward or downward action is stronger, and vice versa. 
So, the larger the sphere the less the weight on its surface 
and vice versa. Objects are heavier on the moon there- 
fore, than they would be on the earth, and heavier on the 
earth than they would be on the sun. This is the re- 
verse of received theories based on attraction according 
to mass of matter in the orb. 

Again, the earth is known to oscillate in its orbit, 
moving in a spiral path around the sun. This is pre- 
sumedly under the influence (not attractive on this 
theory) of the moon which, because of its lesser mass, 
and under the influence of the earth, moves in a rela- 
tively greater spiral than the earth's path, while the 
earth's motion is in a still greater spiral, relatively, 
than that of the sun around the super-solar center. 

If the motions occur and relations exist, they must be 



C0SM0NICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 105 

under the law here set forth; and momentum given to 
the earth under such oscillations may cause the tidal 
swayings or sloppings which are observed upon the 
shores of the oceans, seas and lakes. As wave motion 
appears to be a law of universal action, so the ocean 
may surge under the constant oscillation of the earth. 

The tilting or swinging motion of Earth around its 
north polar axis giving the south pole a greater range, 
swings or sends its fluid portion towards the south pole 
under the law of momentum or tangential tendency, 
which also affects and perhaps effects our tides. This 
peripheral tendency is aided by the dominating force 
rays from the direction of Polaris. So the ocean is 
thrown and also pushed southward exposing more land 
in the northern hemisphere. 

That the moon instead of rotating like the earth on 
its axis, always presents the same side for our view, is a 
subject of much comment. The side (or end) so pre- 
sented is a pole. It is the axis on which the planet 
performs a tilting motion of about five degrees. 

According to genetic law this is accounted for as fol- 
lows: Like all other planets and their satellites, the 
moon is hollow; and as from its outer surface, so also 
from its inner surface, magnetism is radiated; and from 
the great central cavity it finds an outlet through the 
polar vent which is held opposite from our view, just as 
the feather end of the arrow or weather vane, denoting 
the wind's course, is turned and held in the direction 
in which it is blown. This keeps the opposite — the 
closed — polar end in the direction of the earth. Mag- 
netic radiations or emanations from the earth, acting 



106 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

in the same direction as the moon's magnetic polar out- 
flow, causes this position. (Fig. A.) 

The moon is an unborn planet in its gestative stage of 
development, with only one polar vent. When gestation 
shall have been completed, birth will follow. A new 
polar vent will then be accomplished on the side now 
towards the earth; and exactly opposite the one which 
is now in operation and established. The moon will 
then turn its equatorial belt towards the earth and 
rotate on its axis, behaving towards the earth as the 
earth now behaves towards the sun. It then, as now. 
will be a hollow globe with inner and outer crusts and 
intervening lava bed with external volcanic vents; but 
it will then have two polar openings as is now the con- 
dition of our planet. (Fig. D.) 

The north pole (or end) of the moon appears as the 
axial pivot on which the moon performs its waving or 
tilting motion. As both Moon and Earth grow in size, 
and the distance between them increases they will both 
depart farther from the sun until, by the vastness of 
intervening space, the sun will become the pole star of 
the moon as Polaris now is of Earth — the pivotal center 
of its tilting motion. (P. 99.) 

As the north pole of Earth is constantly towards the 
north star, so the moon's earthward pole will become 
the sunward pole when its equatorial presentation 
becomes earthward. The moon will then behave to- 
wards the sun as the earth now behaves towards Polaris ; 
for, as the earth in its orbit around the sun is attended 
by the moon; so the sun in its orbit around Polaris is 
attended by the earth and its companion satellite. 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 107 

Polaris is the super-solar center of many solar systems, 
not exactly like ours but similar to it. 

The earth is the moon's polaris as the sun has been 
the earth's polaris, and will be the moon's polaris when 
development gives her (the moon) two polar vents and 
an equatorial belt, with tropical, sub-tropical and polar 
zones ; with life and seasons conferred thereon by Earth 
as a solar center. 

The earth and its moon both will be larger than they 
now are ; the curvature of the surfaces will be extended 
and magnetic rays proceeding from them will be less 
divergent — more nearly parallel — extending their force 
to greater distances, driving these two spheres farther 
apart, and at the same time increasing life-giving ener- 
gies of the earth on the smaller body — the moon — just 
as the sun now confers these conditions on the earth. 
The process of growth or enlargement will go on cor- 
respondingly in all of its parts ; on the outside by fall- 
ing meteors, the piling up of lava by volcanoes, and 
perhaps by many other as yet unknown causes. 

As the outer crust of the earth accumulates on the 
surface, magnetic restraint becomes greater at the lava 
bed. Fervency follows and heat intensifies, causing the 
inner side of the outer crust to melt proportionally. 
So the crust will be kept at approximately the same 
thickness while constantly enlarging by accumulations. 

The inner crust and the great interior cavity propor- 
tionately enlarge by cooling next the lava bed, as wast- 
age of the interior surface goes on without accumulat- 
ing; for no meteors fall there and no volcanoes there 
occur. 



108 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

Forces and their material substances are there con- 
stantly given off, to escape through the polar vents, to 
assist in producing Aurora Borealis in the outer atmos- 
phere and, by concretion of etherial substances, furnish- 
ing additional material to feed the planet for its further 
exterior increase in the solidifying process of plant and 
animal growth, decay and petrifaction. (Fig. A.) 

This inner crust is an arching brace against the forces 
between it and the outer crust through which all the 
ruptures occur. The outer crust is not a bracing arch 
but is an expansive and even weaker form than if it 
were a flat surface. 

This w r aning within and waxing without, of the two 
crusts respectively, is too gradual for observation by the 
inhabitants of either side ; but millions of ages afford 
ample time for the most extensive changes; and our 
little satellite of the sun may, after billions of years, 
become an extra super-solar center of super-solar sys- 
tems composed of suns, their planets and moons not yet 
in process of incubation. 

The super-solar centers of now T , may have passed on 
and become extra super-solar or defunct, so far as life 
on them is concerned, although they will still confer 
conditions of life on other worlds. Birth, growth and 
stages of evolution all globes must undergo ; for neither 
time, nor space are lacking where all is infinite. 

The moon must go through periods of disturbance 
as the earth has already gone and is going ; and Earth 
will approach the present condition of our sun, which 
in turn will pass on to the more extensive career of 
super-solar, perhaps extra super-solar, beyond which it 



COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 109 

will arrive at that stage where no rays will reach it from 
any other orb, to confer on it light, heat and life, 
although it will continue to confer these on the live and 
growing stars. It may also continue to confer life on 
inhabitants of its vast interior greatly augmented beyond 
its present capacity ; and proportionately fitted for occu- 
pancy by beings of celestial character and exalted enjoy- 
ment. 

All the stars that now exist have had their begin- 
nings and may have their endings, as luminaries. As 
there is room enough in all space for any conceivable 
number of solar systems, so also there is time enough in 
which to pass through all the stages of birth, evolution 
and extinction any conceivable number of moons, planets 
and suns, if extinction be their fate. 

If this globe has been in the moon's present condition 
and this moon will eventually come to the earth's pres- 
ent stage, the question arises as to the present condition 
of our planet. Its exterior is pretty well explored 
and its interior may be inferred by the great law of gene- 
sis and evolution already expounded on these pages. 
We are endowed with ability to discover law and per- 
ceive its uniformity of operation. By this we discern 
causes, determine their effects and comprehend existing 
relations between them. Yet we, by the weakness of 
credulity, are subjected to a belief in many preposterous 
errors and intimidated, by fear to renounce them, even 
when convinced of the truth. So great is this impedi- 
ment in the way of our progress that but few surmount 
it; while many "die in their sins." Error is the source 
of sin. Ignorance is prolific of error. Hence the Bible 



110 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

Baying: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowl- 
edge." Persecution is a club in the hands of Cain, 
before whom the masses flee, while Abel falls under the 
inflicted blows. Yet, as generations pass away, virtue, 
the cause of envy, survives its would-be destroyer. Per- 
secutors are finally extinguished while their victims are 
given life eternal. Martyrs live when their persecutors 
are forgotten. 

The false belief that heat comes all the way from the 
sun has evoked many theories concerning the means by 
which that great luminary preserves its caloric. One 
thinks it is kept hot by the great weight of its own mass ; 
another by the impact of meteors; and yet others an- 
nounce the combustion theory; as if it could continue 
to burn for millions of ages without being consumed! 
From any rational point of view all these conjectures 
are preposterous. Earth is under the same influences 
as other stars; and we see the result. There is fire in 
the sun as well as in the earth, and from the same cause. 
Let us consider the earth and infer concerning the sun. 

EARTH. 

"Know, then, thyself. Presume not God to scan. 
The proper study of mankind is man/' 
And his own Earth. The stars thou canst not reach, 
And more than thou canst learn this world will teach. 

The interior of the earth is regarded as a molten 
mass, because volcanic eruptions have given us that 
indication; and also because deep excavations indicate 
that at a depth of twenty miles the ground must be red 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. Ill 

hot, and at thirty miles a molten mass. If so, then at 
fifty miles it must be an incandescent gas. All this 
increase of heat is beyond the sun's influence and must 
be attributed to some other cause. Here again we have 
to meet a vast amount of scientific nonsense which the 
professional standing of its advocates renders very 
prejudicial and obstructive. 

If the theory advanced in these pages be true — that 
magnetic restraint produces fervency manifested in heat 
— the rule must apply to Earth's interior ; and our argu- 
ment claims fair standing room. Light and heat are 
generated on the outer surface of any star or in its 
atmosphere by resistance to the magnetic rays from 
both itself and its chief luminary or central sun. But 
they are generated within or under the crust by mag- 
netic passion ivhen restrained. Magnetic restraint, 
accumulation and fervency, resulting in heat which 
increases as we descend, accounts for the molten condi- 
tion of any star below the outer surface and beyond 
the reach of a sun's rays. 

As by accretion on the surface Earth's crust becomes 
thicker, the process of melting takes place within, which 
causes a corresponding decrease of solid matter below, 
whereby the average thickness is maintained as enlarge- 
ment of the entire sphere goes on. When by constant 
enlargement and thickening of the crust, restraint and 
resulting fervency becomes too great for endurance, vent 
is obtained by volcanic eruptions in which also steam 
plays an important part. These are usually accom- 
panied by seismic disturbances, perhaps near the vol- 
canic scene and perhaps many miles distant; caused 



112 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

largely by gases which are constantly generated within 
the earth. 

Besides this outer shell, which is being ruptured by 
volcanic action in various parts of the globe, there is 
also an inner crust but for which the outer one would 
not last a single day, nor could it have ever been formed. 
Let this inner crust now be removed, and, like an earthen 
basket, or vessel, containing an irresistible gas, the outer 
crust would be blown into fragments like an exploded 
bomb; or, if loaded with liquid lava, over 7,000 miles 
in diameter, it would not stand the surges of momentum 
caused by a single spiral turn so effective in producing 
oceanic tides. If accepted "scientific" theories were 
true, this fragile casket holding so enormous a quantity 
of molten lava, would be a seething cauldron of literal 
fire within a very brittle shell. Instead of being in such 
a dangerous predicament, we are safely standing and 
moving on an upper crust of a great earthen pie, spheri- 
cal in shape, and well supported by bracements afforded 
in the contact of two crusts, at available positions where 
solidity gives to form its most effective strength. (D.) 

This great inner ocean of molten matter between two 
crusts is the magnetic center of intense fervency from 
which heat, in both directions, decreases in the ratio of 
descending magnetic restraint, both outward and inward, 
until the surface without or within is reached, where 
all restraint ceases (except such restraint as the air 
furnishes), and comparatively free radiation begins. 
The surface within surrounds a great concavity which 
communicates with outer space by openings at the two 



COS^IOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 113 

poles. The outer surface, on which we move, envelops 
the entire globe except the polar vents. 

Of this double crust the inner one presents a convex 
surface to the intervening sea of lava, while the outer 
crust presents a concave surface. The inner crust there- 
fore is a supporting arch against the liquid mass and 
consequently is not subject to eruptions like the outer 
crust. The latter more easily gives way because, 
although the constantly generating energies press alike 
on both, the effect of it is less inward than outward. So, 
volcanoes and earthquakes do not occur in the great 
cavity, because the outer shell is weaker and always 
yields to the common strain. 

How deep this fiery ocean may be it is impossible to 
know; but as the magnetic restraint must be equal in 
both directions on account of its equal fusing effects 
under a given amount of resistance, it seems that the 
two crusts must be very nearly the same in thickness, 
unless the difference between convergence and divergence 
in the action of heat be considerable. As divergence 
eliminates energy transmitting or transferring it into 
outward effects, as explosion or expansion etc., while 
convergence accumulates energy or absorbs it from 
environing matter into that which is more immediately 
effected, or which is in the source of its action, so the 
restraint on inward rays is likely to result in force rather 
than its counterpart or interchangeable quality, heat. 
The inner crust, therefore, is probably thicker — perhaps 
much thicker than the outer crust. 

Xear the poles they unite ; becoming one single crust 
which, although thicker than either of the two crusts, 



114 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

is too thin to admit of an intervening lava bed. Con- 
sequently there is no internal fire; and as on the surface 
rays from the sun are chiefly horizontal, it is apparent 
why those zones are frigid and all conditions are unfav- 
orable to prolific plant life. (Fig. D.) 

With one solid crust at the poles, parting into two 
towards the equator where heat both within and without 
is most intense and extensive, the conditions of strength 
by bracement are most economically and amply sup- 
plied. Let the inner crust be removed and the whole 
interior filled with molten lava; then contemplate the 
effects of even a moderate quake. The theory of attrac- 
tion would instantly vanish from any oracle, and over- 
whelm his thoughts of central gravity in complete and 
realistic oblivion. 

Universal spacial force acting equally on the entire 
outer surface is resisted less at the poles than on the 
equator, from within where heat is generated. Hence, 
not only are eruptions mostly near the equator but 
earth's diameter is greater. The intervening lava bed 
is deeper; and it may be that the bulge of the inner 
crust is less; even so much less that, measured by it, 
the globe is longer from pole to pole than it is trans- 
versely through the equatorial center of the hollow inner 
sphere, and that the excess of equatorial diameter on 
the outer crust is more than counterbalanced by the 
excess of polar diameter within. Besides, the sun and 
moon are screens to stellar force acting on the tropical 
belt; and so permit the internal energy to act with more 
outward effect there than in the temperate and polar 
zones. 



C0SM0XICS OF WORLDS AXD FORCES. 115 

If each of the two crusts be fifty miles in thickness, 
and the intervening lava sea also be fifty miles deep at 
the equator, we then have a central cavity more than 
7,500 miles across, through which magnetic rays from 
the great concave surface proceed and cross or focalize 
at the center where accumulation, resistance and inten- 
sity furnish all the requirements of a constant central 
ideal sun: not a sphere; presenting no disk; and 
although intangible and undefined; yet as bright, beau- 
tiful and real as a rainbow. (Figs. C and D.) 

This also is likely to be the condition and effect of 
rays radiant from all directions in stellar space, focaliz- 
ing on the earth and transmitted through it, meeting 
and crossing more intensely at the center than else- 
where ; thus by coincidence aiding the earth's radiations 
in producing the focal aspect of terrestial, solar and 
celestial harmony. 

They also pass in large portion across the great spa- 
cial sphere to the opposite side where they not only pene- 
trate an atmosphere and meet a concave surface of earth, 
but also meet converging rays like themselves emitted 
from that surface, and on their journey to perform the 
same office on the opposite side of the etheric abyss. 

Every inch of surface in the great concavity warmed 
by the nether heat, is fructified by convergent rays from 
its own and also the opposite side. Therefore it must 
be supplied with conditions most favorable to results 
even greater than those found in an equatorial belt on 
the outer crust, with such alterations and additions as 
are afforded by a sun always at zenith, and therefore 
constantly vertical, furnishing a perpetual noon-day- 



116 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

light in an atmosphere which hugs the hollow surface of 
this concave world under conditions which, perhaps, are 
conducive to influences most favorable to exuberant life 
and unceasing happiness. 

The atmosphere on earth's outer surface must be 
exceedingly rare at an elevation of twenty miles. If 
this be the case as near the surface of the great inner 
world or sphere, there are over 7,000 miles of com- 
paratively atmospheric vacuum. So, all the needed 
varieties of weather for variegated life may be there. 
Clear sky and clouds, storms of rain, and possibly even 
of snow very near the polar vents, in alternate parts 
of the year ; always at that pole which is in advance and 
hence dominantly electrical, more than at the rear pole 
which is dominantly magnetic and hence fervent. It 
is probable, however, that snow never falls in any por- 
tion of this great tropical cavity where there is a con- 
tinual sun almost vertical to every portion of its area; 
but somewhat less because of elongation as the polar 
vents are approached where the crust is one or single, 
and therefore less in thickness from inner to outer side, 
than where it is double and greater in distance through 
the whole, midway between the polar vents and where 
two crusts and a lava sea make up the entire thickness 
between the inner and the outer world. This interior, 
therefore, may be elliptical in shape — elongated from 
pole to pole as above shown. 

In its orbit around the outer sun the earth remains in 
the same general direction; but the two poles alternate 
in being before or behind in a to and fro manner as the 
circuit is traversed — each pole being ahead half of the 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 117 

time. The forward pole or end is generally the coldest, 
but not abruptly so, as the change from one position to 
the other is gradual and almost imperceptible ; the tem- 
perature being also graduated by influences which can- 
not be fully discussed in our abbreviated space, and in 
our ignorance of conditions. 

Xo night within, although clouds, mists and beautiful 
rainbows may be there. Lightning and thunder may 
flash and reverberate among wooded hills and valleys, 
with flowing streams and lucid lakes abounding in 
aquatic life, w^hile animate, floral and arborescent beauty 
occupy most lovely landscapes. Grandeur and magnifi- 
cence inconceivable, without earthquakes, volcanoes, tor- 
nadoes or other terrors to mar delight, may reasonably 
be conjectured of conditions which reason and revelation 
combine to suggest of conditions in this delightful por- 
tion of our planet. 

The all pervading ether of space without, must fill 
this cavity also ; for it is transfused through the entire 
earth; and the outer and the inner space communicate 
and interchange their atmosphere by way of the great 
ventilating orifices at the poles. These orifices are so 
large that their size is not likely to be ascertained even 
if their borders are ever approached by a surmounting 
of the icy barriers that w r all them about. (Fig. D.) 

Were the earth viewed from a point in line with its 
polar axis [Fig. E], at a moderate distance away, as we 
now view the moon, the luminous interior might permit 
us with powerful telescopes to see clearly through it 
(were it not for the property of perspective which would 
apparently close the opposite pole) or, with eyes only, 



118 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

behold a bright center of the disc which would have the 
appearance of a massive ring. For the same reason. 
and because of its great size, the sun, seen in the direc- 
t-ion of its poles and from a distance near enough to be 
distinguishable, would seem a massive ring or as an 
enormous disk with a hole through its center. 

Xote how differently forces work on the exterior and 
interior. Without, all rays from the surface diverge, 
while opposite action works within. Here converging 
rays meet converging rays on every inch of surface and 
at all points athwart the vast abysmal realm; furnish- 
ing all the influences which on the external surface are 
erroneously attributed to attraction of gravitation. 
Within, the rays both given off and received are con- 
vergent and so endowed with greater potency. Effects 
are also modified by transmitted rays which come from 
without, passing through both crusts and the interven- 
ing lava. Interferences of reflection, refraction, trans- 
mission and emanation may not now be discussed. Their 
consideration belongs to a more complex analysis than is 
here intended. Let it suffice that objects within as well 
as without are held firmly to the earth, not by attraction 
but by cogent, POSITIVE action. 

In this great interior we have, not only the rays con- 
verging from a concave surface — in action, the reverse 
of those diverging from a convex surface — but, what 
is equally important, instead of these rays being — like 
those from a convex surface — effective in proportion to 
their nearness to parallelism, they are more forcible in 
proportion as they are oblique and not parallel, but con- 
vergent. The more convergent, the more cogent and 



COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 119 

effective. Hence their power increases with the decrease 
in the size of the circle from the inner surface of which 
they proceed. How great, then, must be this potency, 
if this cavity be comparatively small ! 

Whatever of centrifugal force there may be from the 
earth's rotation, operates on the inner and outer sur- 
faces directly the reverse of each other. This tendency 
on the inner surface is to increase weight. The theory 
that everything on or in the earth tends towards the 
.center, is true at all points outside the middle of the 
lava sea. Towards this neutral center line, or plane 
of energy, all objects tend from within as well as from 
without, and on the inner surface are more firmly held 
than on the outer. 

From this beautiful summer sphere of eternal day 
we are barred by an impassable gulf. What is accom- 
plished within by mortals more or less perfect than we, 
or haply by the immortal and invisible departed, we 
may not know on the outer portion of the planet. In 
future time, perhaps now very near, some genius may 
be sent who will solve the problem of etherial navigation, 
and thereby reach the polar vents, or one of them, and, 
may be, enter the great cavity within the inner crust of 
our planet. 

It may not be very long until we shall scale the ram- 
parts of ice and visit the abode of beings happy in the 
delights of continuous day where beauties excelling all 
we see on the outer mundane sphere delight senses vastly 
finer than ours. The ascent accomplished and the de- 
scent begun, suspicion might not enter the traveler's 



120 COSMOXICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

mind that anything more than a milder climate is being 
entered on a polar plain or an open sea. 

The physical vision, even when aided by art, is lim- 
ited within a few miles of earthly observation, where 
objects are not either luminous or illuminated, and, 
across the polar aperture, are not visible because not 
lustrous. The great passage darkens as it deepens, 
until the sky and stars are vanished from view behind, 
while ahead the expanding orifice, counteracting per- 
spective, opens to the delighted vision a distant view 
of the central sun. 

Perhaps a telescope or even a field-glass might still 
disclose Polaris or some southern star; but not the dark 
walls of the enormous cavern, until hundreds of miles 
within its portals through gloom and peril, surrounded 
by crags and caverns of most forbidding aspect if ap- 
proached on any side, the trepid navigator, uncertain 
of his course and under a play of unknown forces, for- 
tuitously might experience terrible disaster; by head 
winds be driven back or capricious currents be impelled 
beyond the possibility, and perhaps beyond all desire, 
to return. What pranks gravity would play in such a 
passage is a subject for curious conjecture. 

The journey may be long, rough and perilous, but 
the reward of endurance may also be ample for the most 
hazardous pilgrimage; if locality be a factor of our 
future existence. 

This change from winter to summer and from a 
varying to constant day may be gradual. It might seem 
in some respects like a return to lower latitudes on the 
earth's exterior; until after days of toilsome journey- 



COSMCmCS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 121 

ings through bewildering, strange and incomprehensible 
scenes, delights will surprise the traveler with aspects 
of surpassing loveliness, richer as we advance, excelling 
all that is left behind, until an awakening to full realiza- 
tion that earth's interior is being explored and Heaven 
is found. 

Are the sparkling ices, abounding in rainbow hues, 
the pearly gates through which we may enter by lights 
auroral to that realm of a never-setting sun where joys 
do not cease ? 

When we point upward and away from this convex 
plane, the finger, like a magnetic ray outward, points 
divergently, locating Heaven in many different, and 
even in opposite directions, as we complete a circle in 
twenty-four hours; whereas, if we make its location in 
the beautiful country here mentioned, our point in its 
direction will be the same at any hour of the day or 
night or on any outer portion of the globe. 

Which is the most consistent, rational, and therefore 
true idea of a distant paradise — so near although so far ? 

If our argument succeeds in reversing the order of 
beliefs, as in science new theories reverse old ones with 
reference to the rising and setting of sun and moon; 
and the views here expressed regarding these orbs as to 
their condition and career, while the cause of tides and 
weight, or gravity, is likewise reversed ; and if the teach- 
ings in the nineteenth century that man is a "poor weak 
and unworthy worm of the dust v and made up of "poor 
miserable sinners" is now discovered to be erroneous and 
that God is not guilty of creating such a creature in "His 
own image:" thereby inaugurating a paradox; as man- 



122 COSMONICS OF WORLDS AND FORCES. 

kind is now conceded to be His children, or at least may 
be by adoption; how is it not possible that Heaven 
should be in the direction opposite from that born of our 
conjectures or imaginings, and where exist conditions 
contrary from those of a supposed Hell ? 

Many beliefs in both science and religion have been 
changed and even reversed, only to be altered again and 
again without having reached a finality. What new 
reversals await further study and investigation we may 
not now apprehend; but this is no reason why we should 
not abandon any false belief and embrace a better one, 
always remaining ready to accept any change in the 
direction of HIGHEE LIGHT. 

The great law of energy, force, power and motion 
applies equally in the evolution of worlds and the me- 
chanical movements of invented appliances by human 
brains. Xature and Art are under the same inevitable 
and unchanging law. This law holds good, and sways 
in the movements of man and the march of civilization. 
Understanding this we recognize a great plan in the 
course of empire and are able to forsee the destinies of 
countries, communities and nations. Do you long for 
such foresight concerning this country? 

THEX EEAD 
COSMOXICS of the UXITED STATES; 

A new accurate science. A new standard work. 



ALPHABETACROSTIC. 



Astrornony aims at the order of action ; 
Believing in force but opposing attraction. 
Cosmonics considers all cause in creation ; 
Divining results by a just estimation; 
Existence and energy, most comprehensive, 
Forecasting the facts with effects most extensive. 
Genetics, which gives us the law of beginnings, 
Has ref rence to growth and to all forms of "innings," 
In every department of Earth's evolution; 
Joint interest with every star's constitution. 
Knowledge is power and the surest foundation ; 
Love is the fruitage through faith's procreation. 
Mystery shrouds every phase of existence; 
Nothing's more sure than the law of resistance 
Overcome by an impulse behind every motion, 
Propelling the waves which, in ether's vast ocean, 
Quake planets and atoms alike in their action; 
Eepulsion the mainspring; but never attraction. 
Science succeeds when truth is its fountain; 
Truth is a science which moves every mountain 
Until, in the sunlight where freedom will flourish, 
Virtue also can thrive and will purity nourish. 
Weight then will be known as the act of repulsion ; 
Xylography plain cannot show the revulsion 
Your schools (with false logic and lessons of error) 
Zero then will have reached, in a chill of grim terror. 

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124 COSMONOGRAPHS. 



COSMONOGRAPHS. 



Existence is eternal ; from no beginning to no ending 
it forever is. Non-existence is inconceivable and impos- 
sible. 

Existences and creations, as individual entities, begin 
and end. They are constantly taking place and will for- 
ever so continue. 

Cause is primal. It antecedes and underlies all se- 
quence and every creation. It is behind and above all 
action. 

Truth is inherent, universal and eternal. It never 
was created nor can it be annihilated. It is primal and 
coexistent with cause. 

Every truth newly discovered or acquired, is an aid 
in the acquisition of more truth, and brings us nearer 
to the center of all truth. 

Truth is essentially the same, always and everywhere ; 
but it is various in expression and adaptation. Expres- 
sions are facts. 

Facts are specific and limited. They lose in value. 
Truths and principles are universal and eternal. Hence 
they are better guides. 

Facts are foundations of evidence in certain transac- 
tions and occurrences. Principles apply to all; they 
never lose in value. 

Life, mathematics and music constitute the tripod of 
truth. Their expressions may be prevented, or oblit- 
erated; but not their principles. 



COSMONOGRAPHS. 125 

Principle is co-existent with cause, is concomitant 
of truth, and cannot be created or destroyed. It never 
diminishes. 

Principles, like truths and causes, are infinitely 
numerous as branches and are always in harmony with 
one universal cause. 

Philosophy is founded on truth and principle, rather 
than on facts. Hence philosophy is a better light and 
guide than is experience. 

Philosophy is a headlight; and affords the means of 
intelligent prediction — of looking forward with reliable 
certainty. 

Philosophy is a radiant sun. It shines in all direc- 
tions. Therefore it is a light on our future. It is the 
true horoscope. 

Prophecy is true when consistent with philosophy. 
The true prophet is a wise philosopher and mirror of the 
Creator. 

Experience is a reflective lamp, throwing its light 
backward, showing only our past. In forecast it is not 
a reliable guide. 

Experiences are valuable as facts; but truths and 
principles are not dependent on experience. They are 
science. 

Conditions mold and circumstances modify effects 
and results. They never alter truths and principles. 
They are auxiliary cause. 

Foresight is a faculty of strongest desire, and of high- 
est value in business; but it is not a common source 
of happiness. 

Results are alwavs effects, but effects are not alwavs 



l^G COSMONOGRAPHS. 

results. Effects end when results are reached. Results 
are final. 

Night reveals to us vastly more of the universe than 
is revealed by daylight. Darkness and silence are essen- 
tial to study. 

Science is always truth, but truth is not science until 
it enters the domain of knowledge. False theories are 
not science. 

Knowledge is the foundation of all true faith which 
elevates and ennobles man. Faith not so founded is 
blind. 

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge, and is the 
secret of salvation from both premature physical, and 
linal spiritual death. 

Faith is an essential force in human affairs ; it is the 
life of enterprise and strength of government. Faitli 
is more than belief. 

Faith is concerning things which do not appear and 
which are made of the unseen. What we see are only 
expressions. 

Love is the fruition of knowledge through faitli; all 
are essential parts of the tree of life. There can be no 
love without faith. 

Life inheres; and is continually exhered as a pri- 
mary and ultimate element of existence. Life is posi- 
tive. Death is negation. 

Art is the soul of science, music of sound, mathe- 
matics of shape, philosophy of truth and idea of thought. 

Mind is a collective name of all the faculties or ele- 
ments of the soul acting in unison, forming conclusions. 
It is not an entity. 



COSMOXOGRAPHS. 127 

Mind, by thought, governs matter in motions; then 
why not in formations ? It causes disease ; also death. 
Why not life? 

Almighty mind, by law, controls all forms of exist- 
ence. May it not create them, and even create matter 
by thought ? 

Thought is normal to nature, elemental in life, and 
fundamental in creation. It is in proportion to intelli- 
gence. Thoughts are entities. 

Thoughts develop and also diminish growths, both 
normal and abnormal. They produce and also destroy 
organisms. 

Intelligence is essential to thought, commensurate 
with it, and a co-ordinate of existence. Hence it is not 
created. It is creative. 

Ideas are the fruition of intelligence, primaries of 
ingenuity, princes among principles and monarchs of 
human action. 

Cogitation is the development of concepts, or ideas. 
by thoughts, into conclusions, and perhaps into material 
entities. 

Mentality is manifested only in materiality. That 
is, mind can be known only by form or motion produced 
in matter. 

Form is not created, and only sometimes is expressed ; 
then always by shape in matter. Form inheres in space 
before taking shape in matter. 

Matter embodies thought which is thus materialized 
and manifested as a constituent and expression of exist- 
ence in substance. 

Expression, in whatever form, is manifested intellec- 
tion, whether seen or heard, in movements or in sounds, 
as words. 



1 28 COSMOXOGRAPHS. 

Soul is the individual, of which body is the person and 
expression. Each is proved by its own distinctive qual- 
ities. 

Thought exhausts and therefore transmutes matter. 
which it creates or finites. May it not be concretive sub- 
stance ? 

Spirit or soul may be a condition or entity of matter 
too sublimated for human conception. Spirit is cosmic. 

Spirit and matter may be different conditions of the 
same substance, as water differs from steam, or air from 
ether. 

Law is uniform in operation and infinite in variety 
of execution. Law must be co-existent with life, which 
depends on it. 

Co-existent life and law must have an element of uni- 
formity in creative and almighty essence mentioned in 
many titles. 

GOD eternal must have life eternal under law eternal. 
All three must be potencies uncreated, creative and ever- 
lasting. 

Man is a manifestation of his Maker. If made in His 
image and likeness, then GOD, also, must be an identity. 

Eeason consists in such united action of the soul's 
faculties as compel a distinguishment between truth and 
error in accord with known premises. 

Universe is unity in diversity — one in all, or every- 
thing under one law ; as the tap-root of a tree comprises 
all its branches. It is cosmonistic. 

Trees are types of the universe and expressions of the 
great law of one in all as well as all in one, — amity in 
diversitv. They are cosmonisms. 



COSMOXOGRAPHS. 129 

Ideas are born naked, often long before they are 
clothed or carried by words, or a market is found for 
their exchange. 

Words, like other forms, express the thoughts which 
create them. They clothe ideas and carry them to mar- 
ket. Language is cosmical. 

Qualities pertain only to existences. There are many 
qualities not known in matter. They must qualify some- 
thing. May not that something be soul? 

Inspiration is in accord with science. Both coincide 
with truth. Hence these are practically one, and cos- 
monistical. 

Divine inspiration must be scientific. Scientific in- 
spiration cannot be other than divine. Divinity com- 
prehends all truth. It is cosmonic. 

Discoveries and inventions in the line of science may 
all be inspired, and hence may all be divine. They are 
cosmoniscient. 

Accidents (if there be such) often eventuate in dis- 
coveries and inventions. Accidents may be a part of 
Divine purpose. 

Progress is the law of nature and is in proportion to 
the control of mind over matter. Improvement is the 
rule. 

Increase of knowledge conduces to growth of soul, 
freedom of thought and liberality of sentiment, with 
salvation. 

A theory is established only when proved. All kin- 
dred phenomena are in evidence. If true it is practical. 

Perfection is not possible to progressive beings, for 



130 COSMOXOGRAPHS. 

when perfection is attained progress ends. Man is im- 
perfect and progressive. 

Harmony is a condition of happiness and must agree 
with Xature. Health is a result of harmony with laws 
of nature. 

Nature forever seeks but never maintains equilibrium. 
Her constant effort to restore it causes motion. 

Energy evolved becomes force, and force restrained 
gives power which yields results called motion. This is 
the law of action. 

Motion being essential in creation, is the normal state 
or mode of matter. Motion is a product ; not a potency. 

Eestrained efforts to restore equilibrium produce 
effects which, when observed, are called phenomena. 
They are cosmoscenic. 

Suns and atoms obey the same law of energy, force, 
power and motion in continuous transition and evolu- 
tion. 

Magnetism is, in volume, proportioned to mass. In 
effect it is according to parallelism of rays. (Explana- 
tions herein.) 

Rays proceed from convex and concave surfaces alike, 
but with opposite relative effects. 

Effects of rays diminish as they proceed from convex 
surfaces. From concave surfaces they intensify or 
increase. 

Rays proceed in direct lines perpendicular to surfaces 
from which they are impelled by pulsation or vibration. 

Pulsation of atoms in any mass is most in direction of 
the surface (at right angles) because this is least 
resistant. 



COSMONOGRAPHS. 131 

Eadiation is vibration proceeding from all matter 
which is in constant pulsation or agitation. It is called 
radiant matter. 

Concentrative is more potent than dispersive radia- 
tion when speed and volume are the same. Important 
truth. 

Agitation or atomic tremor gives the introductory im- 
pulse to etheric motions in great variety; called vibra- 
tions. 

Vibrations are quick, rapid, or intense, according to 
degree or kind of impulse to ether from atoms of matter 
in motion. 

Atomic motions are slow or quick according to quality 
or kind of matter they compose, with effects according 
to speed. 

Astronomy searches for principles while dealing with 
facts, real or supposed ; resulting in many false deduc- 
tions. 

Astromony treats of truths, both known and inferred ; 
with principles (not facts) as the bases of conclusions. 

Cosmonics considers all causes and estimates all 
effects. All conditions and circumstances must agree 
in each result. 

Potency is according to sublimation of substance and 
quickness of motion. Steam is more potent than water. 

Air controls water and ether controls atmosphere. 
This is the law. The finer controls the coarser in the 
order of action. 

If spirit be the highest form of existence, it follows, 
under the law, that spirit is the source of all energy and 
all action. 



What poetry there is in lofty prose. 

How prosy are the words of jingling rhyme; 
In meditation let me find repose, 

And in philosophy my dream sublime. 

Be phrases always few and meanings deep; 

With halo of the Infinite around; 
Where boundless thought may roam in wid'ning sweep; 

And only gems of simple truth are found. 



PHYSICAL PROPHECY. 

New Thought, New Theory, New Theme. 



COSMONICS 



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NAMES. 

Prof. F. W. Putnam, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Hon. John Sartain, Author and United States Commis- 
sioner, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, United States Judge and Secre- 
tary of State. 

Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Bank President and Secretary of 
Treasury. 

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Exposition, Chicago. 



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Hon. E. J. Searle, Colonel in Army and United States 
Judge, Rock Island. 

Rev. H. W. Thomas, People's Church, Chicago. 

Rev. H. W. Bolton, Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago. 

Rev. Samuel Fallows, Protestant Episcopal Church, Chi- 
cago. 

Hon. David H. Mason, Editor and Historian, Chicago. 

LETTERS. 

From L. F. COOK, Inventor of New Rapid Transit. 
A great subject beautifully handled. 

From Prof. F. W. PUTNAM, Harvard University. 
I regard it as very patriotic, and exceedingly suggestive. 

From THOMAS B. BRYAN, Vice-President World's Fair. 

The entire work indicates thought and is calculated to 
awaken thought. 

From LYMAN J. GAGE, Secretary United States Treasury. 

I have read with interest and satisfaction "Cosmonics of 
the United States." It points out clearly the line of our 
future commercial development, and is an inspiring 
prophecy of the national greatness that awaits us if we are 
true to the principles on which our national life is founded. 

From PAUL G. BIGGS, 103 N. Park Avenue, Chicago. 

I congratulate you on the publishing of your book enti- 
tled "Cosmonics," for which I paid you two dollars. I am 
proud to be the possessor of it, and if I could not replace 
it I would not take one hundred dollars for it. As I am 
a Real Estate man I feel its value. It should be in the 
hands of every Real Estate dealer in the United States. 
In fact, no library should be thought complete without it. 



138 cosmonics or THE united stater. 

From the Eminent Author, Promoter and Patron of Art, 
JOHN SARTAIN, Philadelphia. 

I was so charmed with your book on "Cosmonics" on 
first reading it, that I have just completed a second read- 
ing carefully, and not only with renewed pleasure, but 
with enlarged enlightenment. It is captivating as a first- 
class novel, and if the numerous novel readers would 
include your ''Cosmonics" in their round of entertainment, 
it would raise them to a higher level of thought, and per- 
haps lead to a more profitable use of precious time. 
From E. J. SEARLE, Army Officer, and U. S. Judge. 

It is original, suggestive, comprehensive. It exhibits 
laborious research in the domain of facts, profound thought 
as to principles and causes, and these from accurate and 
practical judgment and conclusions. It leads us from 
undoubted data to sublime conceptions of this country; its 
unity, its power and wealth, its social status and the mighty 
part it is intended to play in the great theater of the 
world's action and progress. Herein consists its excellence. 
I would commend it to every American citizen, native and 
foreign-born, old and young. 
From DR. H. W. THOMAS, of the People's Church, Chicago. 

The events of nations and countries have been recorded 
by many authors, and often with tedious detail; but 
few have dealt with the underlying causes, or written from 
the higher standpoint of the philosophy of history. In this 
is the peculiar value of Prof. Babcock's "Cosmonics of the 
United States." Instead of telling what has happened, he 
begins by giving a solid basis of physical facts and reasons 
from which certain results have naturally followed, and 
others may as certainly be expected. As such it is a physi- 
cal geography, a history and a prophecy, in which one 
may see the past, the present and the future of our great 
country in the most rational and practical light. There 
are more facts and solid sense in these three lectures than 
are often found in that number of volumes. 



COSMONICS OF THE UNITED STATES. 139 

From J. B. LEAKE, LaSalle and Adams Streets. 

In your "Cosmonics of the United States" you have 
done a good work. You have exhibited strong thought and 
thorough acquaintance with this great subject in having 
discussed it so successfully in three short lectures. A 
careful, thoughtful reading, will make an American a 
greater admirer of his own country; a better patriot. The 
highest encomium I can bestow on your effort I conceive 
to be in the suggestion that your lectures, with some revis- 
ion to suit the purposes, might well be introduced into the 
curriculum of our schools and colleges. 

From DAVID H. MASON. Tariff Historian. 

I have read with much pleasure and instruction your 
book entitled "Cosmonics of the United States." In its 
pages you set before your readers a feast of reason. You 
conduct them into a new realm of investigation and dis- 
covery, and you lead them on to conclusions which supply 
the deepest, broadest, grandest foundation possible for 
American patriotism. Lovers of this land of the free must 
become still more devoted to it by reading your book, while 
those in whom the love of country is still a feeble senti- 
ment, must feel it warming and expanding into a nobler 
appreciation of patriotic duty. Had I the power I would 
place your little volume in every public and school library, 
to the end that the young of both sexes might be brought 
into frequent contact with ideas so stimulant of patriotism. 

From FRANCIS B. PEABODY, Financier. 

I have read with great interest an early copy of your 
book entitled "Cosmonics of the United States." The sub- 
ject of which it treats is one of vital importance to the pres- 
ent and future generations of Americans. You write with a 
fine command of language, with great vigor and earnest- 
ness, and no thoughtful person can read your book with- 
out his enthusiasm being stirred, his patriotism stimulated, 



140 COSMGKICS OF THE UNITED STATES. 

and his pride exalted by your glowing pictures of the 
greatness and power which are in store for our beloved 
country, and especially for its central field of population, 
production and distribution. Your conclusions will, I think, 
command the respect and assent of all who give to the 
subject a careful study. Your book will elevate the thoughts 
of young men and inspire them with noble ambitions. The 
work should be widely read, and its influence must needs 
be important in shaping the actions and career of men and 
communities. 

From BISHOP FALLOWS. 
Your theme is new, highly interesting, very instructive 
and intensely patriotic. Every true American should be- 
come familiar with it. The wave of patriotism which is 
now sweeping over our country renders your book and 
public lectures fitting educators for our young people. 

From FERNANDO JONES, 1834 Prairie Avenue, Chicago. 
I have read and reread your "Cosmonics of the United 
States" and cannot refrain from expressing to you my 
admiration of your philosophy and your effective treatment 
of the course of empire and its inevitable future destiny. 
Your work is a valuable contribution to the subject and will 
promote thought and discussion valuable to the public. 

From President of Elgin Patriotic Memorial Association: 
COL. JOHN S. WILCOX. 
Of your recent lecture at Elgin I am quite free to say 
that I was intensely interested and edified. The topic was 
so novel and its treatment so earnest that to me it was 
very instructive and entertaining. I have said to many 
that they missed a rare treat. I would be highly gratified 
if I could induce the men and women of our country to give 
careful thought to the theme you present with such ability 
and patriotic fervor. 



Price of Book, $2.00. Address, Morell Bailey, Philadelphia, 
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MONOGRAPH. 141 

EXTRACT. 

From Campbell's Illustrated Journal, March, 1901: 

''Oliver M. Babcock, the distinguished lecturer, author 
and scholar, is a resident of the city of Chicago. He has 
made a life study of the science of political economy, and 
is one of the highest authorities on the subject. 'The 
Higher Law,' a work of which he is the author, has estab- 
lished for him an international reputation." 



MONOGRAPH. 

Of Scotch and English ancestry, traceable to the 
eleventh century; the author of this and the preceding 
work dates his immediate family record from the colonial 
settlements of New England. His parents on both sides 
were intensely American. 

A native of Otsego County, N. Y., and a western pioneer 
in early boyhood, thereby inured to rigid economy and 
severe toil, with scanty schooling where books were few 
and papers almost unknown; ambition for a larger life 
grew as years advanced and matured with his manhood. 

Self-support, independent education, diversified pursuits, 
varied experience and extensive observation during thirty- 
five years of travel, research, and study of the most 
advanced theories, became factors in the production of new 
philosophies to be launched in due time on a waiting world. 

A refugee from New Orleans at the outbreak of seces- 
sion, he became an earnest advocate of the Union cause 
and gave many lectures, besides executing some valuable 
secret service. By his tact, vigilance and perseverance the 
Camp Douglas conspiracy was detected and exposed; 



142 MONOGRAPH, 

thereby saving Chicago and other cities from pillage, 
devastation and outrage. Success of the plot would have 
brought the Union forces from the South to protect their 
own homes, procrastinated the war at least another year 
and probably secured foreign recognition of the Confeder- 
ate States as a government, by foreign powers. Defeat of 
the plot was not surpassed in importance by any act of the 
Civil war; or of the recent war with Spain. Documents 
verifying the statements above made are preserved for use 
at any time. A full account may be found in one edition 
of the previous work, which contains a supplement on Chi- 
cago. (See prospectus on the four preceding pages, 137, 
138, 139 and 140 of this book.) Both subjects are given 
extensively in public illustrated lectures by the author. 

On account of the author's lectures and writings his 
assistance has been sought for in many ways. He was a 
member of the Advisory Council in Science and Philosophy 
at the World's Congress, and lecturer in the Ethnological 
Gallery of the Columbian Exposition, in 1893, at Chicago, 
where his daily discourses on the course of empire and 
results of American discovery, elicited the admiration. and 
applause of thousands, many of whom pronounced these 
talks and illustrative charts the most interesting exhibit 
of the entire World's Fair. 



INDEX. 

Page 

Accuracies and errors of Sir Isaac Newton 94 

Alphabetacrostic 123 

Attraction of gravitation a fallacy 53, 84-5, 94, 101 

Author's challenge and appeal to reason. . . . 54 

Biography of the author * 141-2 

Carriage-wheel problem solved 37-39 

Circle approximating straight line (plate 1) 36 

Circles and hexagons. Intelligence? 44 

Coherence or tenacity a mystery unsolved 87 

Cosmonic and Symbolic Tree 13-20 

Condensation and convergence augment energy 91 

Convergence indicates energy; divergence, weakness. . 92 

Cosmonacrostic 2 

Cosmonographs 124, 131 

Dimension, form and number — infinite 35 

Downward versus upward action 93 

Earth's axis of motion not the center 40, 69, 89 

Earth's increase in size. Growth of worlds 107-108 

Earth's double crust, strength 108 

Earth's great interior cavity 115-117 

Eight fundamental principles 45 

Earth seen from the moon would appear, etc 71 

Entering a deep mine, decrease of weight 83 

Energy, force, power, motion 42, 56 

Erroneous teaching concerning the earth and moon. ... 51 

Falling bodies resisted by air 96 

Fine fruits from filthy soils 55 

Floating in ether— our planet 86 

Growth, to be successful, must be gradual 55 

Halo around a magnetic head. Aurora borealis 49 

Heresies of advanced thinkers 50-51 

Influences and exfluences 48 

Infinite space, 100,000,000 suns, etc 65 

John W. Keely and his dastardly persecutors 51 

Kingdom of Heaven. Is it within? 121 

Knowledge — ancient and modern 41 

Law universal and eternal 56 

Law of resistance; condition of effects 57 

Law of resistance and sacrifice and salvation 57 

Letters of expert opinions on cosmonics 137-140 

Lines and corners of cubes — multiples of three 45 

Magnetic line of equilibrium; bed of motion 62, 68 

Magnetic line between earth and moon. 70 

Midway angle (45°) most effective 59, 68 

Moon presents only one side. Why? 105 

Moon tide-theory as believed erroneous 100-101 

Motion inherent 84 

143 



144 INDEX. 

Page 

Morning and evening light difference 46 

No heat nor light from the sun 72 

No rays on parent star from planet 76 

Obstruction a condition of effect 42, 56, 58-9 

Ocean's tendency towards south pole 105 

Our limited conceptions of existence 42 

Our world a type of all, also our country 78-79 

Poles 117 

Parallel rays and mass of body (plate 7) 27, 63 

Persecutions by professed lovers of truth 95 

Present condition of our planet 109-114 

Problem of Euclid (plate 1) 21, 44 

Physical illusions and mental aberrations 47 

Physical prophecy 132-136 

Plates — illustrations 21-27 

Positive and negative explained 92 

Polar and equatorial sun-rays 59 

Push, not pull, the force — positive 87, 97 

Radiations, as evaporations, are from surfaces 67 

Radiant energy of the human brain 49 

Ramparts of ice and polar passage 119-120 

Rotary and protectory motion 39-40 

Space, matter, time, etc 29-32 

Spirit or matter — which? 33 

Stars beyond all visual power 42 

Ships and fishes, resistance 58 

Surface curvature and radiation (plate 7) 61 

Spiral orbits and magnetic spheres 64, 66 

Sun and earth. Both fervent 70 

Sun rays reflected from moon 70 

Sun not a hot sphere 72 

Sir John Herschel's bolt of ice 75 

Starless realm 67 

Sirius, sun, earth and moon 76 

Stars, trees, human beings, etc., as types 76 

Sun and earth — how they turn 88, 89 

Steam, clouds, rain, etc 90 

Sap circulates in trees 90-91 

Speed and safety of earth in orbit 98-99 

Tangential tendency. Earth turns 81 

Telescopes and microscopes limited 42 

Top of carriage wheel as axis 69 

Tangential (or centrifugal) tendency 96-97 

Train of cars, band of music, river, etc 92 

Trinity of trinities 44 

Uncreated laws — eternal 44 

What is the sun? Foolish theories , 110 

Weight greater than on exterior 119 

Weight — what it indicates 94, 103 



